CVE-2024-31454 PsiTransfer file integrity violation vulnerability
Attackers can modify uploaded files in shared distributions, potentially delivering malicious content to subsequent users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-31454?
CVE-2024-31454 is a medium-severity vulnerability in psi-4ward psitransfer, published on 9 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
PsiTransfer is an open source, self-hosted file sharing solution. Prior to version 2.2.0, the absence of restrictions on the endpoint, which is designed for uploading files, allows an attacker who received the id of a file distribution to change the files that are in this distribution. The vulnerability allows an attacker to influence those users who come to the file distribution after them and slip the victim files with a malicious or phishing signature. Version 2.2.0 contains a patch for this issue.
CVE-2024-31454 allows users to violate the integrity of a file that is uploaded by another user. In this case, additional files are not loaded into the file bucket. Violation of integrity at the level of individual files. While the vulnerability with the number CVE-2024-31453 allows users to violate the integrity of a file bucket without violating the integrity of files uploaded by other users. Thus, vulnerabilities are reproduced differently, require different security recommendations and affect different objects of the application’s business logic.
Weakness: CWE-434
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-31454?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including psitransfer.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
psitransfer npm | All versions | 2.2.0 |
psitransfer npm | All versions | 2.2.0 |
How do I fix CVE-2024-31454?
Upgrade psitransfer to 2.2.0 or later.
Is CVE-2024-31454 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-31454 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2p2x-p7wj-j5h2.