# CVE-2024-45826: ThinManager® Code Execution Vulnerability

> A path traversal vulnerability in ThinManager allows remote attackers to install executable files via crafted POST requests, leading to code execution.

- **Severity:** High 8.5 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 12 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jj65-79wr-35v9

## What is CVE-2024-45826?

CVE-2024-45826 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Rockwell Automation ThinManager, published on 12 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

CVE-2024-45826 IMPACT
Due to improper input validation, a path traversal and remote code execution vulnerability exists when the ThinManager® processes a crafted POST request. If exploited, a user can install an executable file.

Weakness: CWE-610 (Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45826?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Rockwellautomation Thinmanager.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-45826?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-45826 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-45826 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45826 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation ThinManager

- [CVE-2023-27855](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-27855/): Rockwell Automation ThinManager ThinServer Path Traversal Upload (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-10386](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10386/): Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk ThinManager Authentication Vulnerability (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2024-5988](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5988/): Rockwell Automation ThinManager® ThinServer™ Improper Input Validation Vulnerability (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2024-5989](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5989/): Rockwell Automation ThinManager® ThinServer™ Improper Input Validation Vulnerability (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2024-10387](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10387/): Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk ThinManager Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (high 8.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-45826 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-45826 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Rockwell Automation ThinManager, published on 12 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45826 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Rockwell Automation ThinManager. 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-2024-45826/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45826/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45826
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45826
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-45826

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45826/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.