# CVE-2024-42351: Possible Data Tampering & Loss of Public Datasets in Galaxy


- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 20 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5639-cmph-9j4v

## What is CVE-2024-42351?

CVE-2024-42351 is a medium-severity vulnerability in galaxyproject galaxy, published on 20 Sep 2024. 

### Official description

Galaxy is a free, open-source system for analyzing data, authoring workflows, training and education, publishing tools, managing infrastructure, and more. An attacker can potentially replace the contents of public datasets resulting in data loss or tampering. All supported branches of Galaxy (and more back to release_21.05) were amended with the below patch. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42351?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Galaxyproject Galaxy.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-42351?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-42351 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-42351 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42351 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in galaxyproject galaxy

- [CVE-2023-27578](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-27578/): Galaxy vulnerable to unauthorized modification of pages/visualizations due to insufficient permission check (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2022-23470](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-23470/): Arbitrary file access in the Galaxy data analysis platform (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2024-42346](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42346/): Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) in Galaxy (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2023-42812](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42812/): Galaxy vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery during data imports (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2018-1000516](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1000516/): Galaxy cross-site scripting (XSS) (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-42351 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-42351 is a medium-severity vulnerability in galaxyproject galaxy, published on 20 Sep 2024. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42351 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: galaxyproject galaxy. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42351/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42351/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42351
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42351
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-42351

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42351/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.