CVE-2024-4825 — Vulnerability in cockpit-hq/cockpit — CVE Details

CRITICAL

Cockpit CMS contains an arbitrary file upload vulenrability

Published May 14, 2024Updated May 19, 2024Source: osv

Summary

A vulnerability has been discovered in Agentejo Cockpit CMS v0.5.5 that consists in an arbitrary file upload in ‘/media/api’ parameter via post request. An attacker could upload files to the server, compromising the entire infrastructure.

Advisory Timeline

First published May 14, 2024 (881 days ago).
Last revised May 19, 2024 — 4 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

Composer

Update cockpit-hq/cockpit to 2.7.0 or later

composer require "cockpit-hq/cockpit:^2.7.0"

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (1)

Affects 1 ecosystem: packagist (1).

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed In
cockpit-hq/cockpit	packagist	2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0 (+24 more)	2.7.0

Vulnerability Classification

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

CWE-434
Unrestricted File UploadMITRE

CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 9.8 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-4825?: Cockpit CMS contains an arbitrary file upload vulenrability This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of CRITICAL (CVSS score: 9.8/10).
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Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score

9.8

Exploitation is straightforward and causes maximum impact. Patch immediately.

Also Known As

GHSA-vpj8-xfqc-jcv9

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