CVE-2024-23461 ZCC macOS Upgrade ZIP Bomb DoS

What is CVE-2024-23461?

CVE-2024-23461 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Zscaler Client Connector, published on 2 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value vulnerability in Zscaler Client Connector on MacOS during the upgrade process may allow a Local Execution of Code.This issue affects Client Connector on MacOS: before 3.4.

Weakness: CWE-354

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-23461?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Zscaler Client Connector.

How do I fix CVE-2024-23461?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-23461 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-23461 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-23461 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Zscaler Client Connector

• CVE-2020-11633 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-23463 Anti-Tampering bypass via Repair App functionality High 8.8
• CVE-2023-28804 Linux ZCC allows unsigned updates, allowing elevated Code Execution High 8.2
• CVE-2023-28799 Open redirect in Client Connector High 8.2
• CVE-2023-28800 Output encoding missing in redrurl parameter High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-276f-6jm7-647m.