CVE-2024-34695 WOWS Karma vulnerable to a post submission bounce/timing attack
Attackers can bypass post creation cooldowns via race conditions to artificially inflate reputation metrics in the WOWS Karma system.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-34695?
CVE-2024-34695 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SakuraIsayeki WOWS-Karma, published on 10 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
WOWS Karma is a reputation system for Wargaming's World of Warships. A user is able to click multiple times on "create" on a post creation prompt before the modal closes, which triggers sending several post creation API requests at once. Due to timing, sending multiple posts simultaneously requests bypasses the cooldown validation, however are not refreshing a user's metrics more than once, due to concurrent karma updates. This issue is fixed in 0.17.4.1.
Weakness: CWE-799
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-34695?
How do I fix CVE-2024-34695?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-34695 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-34695 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-34695 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v6cc-v976-mj8g.