CVE-2024-51738 Sunshine improperly enforces pairing protocol request order
An attacker can hijack pairing attempts to gain unauthorized access or crash the Sunshine game streaming server.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-51738?
CVE-2024-51738 is a high-severity vulnerability in LizardByte Sunshine, published on 20 Jan 2025. 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
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. In 0.23.1 and earlier, Sunshine's pairing protocol implementation does not validate request order and is thereby vulnerable to a MITM attack, potentially allowing an unauthenticated attacker to pair a client by hijacking a legitimate pairing attempt. This bug may also be used by a remote attacker to crash Sunshine. This vulnerability is fixed in 2025.118.151840.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-51738?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Lizardbyte Sunshine.
How do I fix CVE-2024-51738?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-51738 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-51738 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-51738 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in LizardByte Sunshine
- CVE-2026-32253 Sunshine: Authentication bypass via improper client certificate validation
- CVE-2025-53095 Sunshine application-wide CSRF in the UI leads to command injection as Administrator
- CVE-2025-10198 LizardBytes Sunshine for Windows contains a DLL search-order hijacking vulnerability
- CVE-2025-10199 A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in LizardBytes' Sunshine for Windows
- CVE-2024-31220 Sunshine vulnerable to remote unauthenticated arbitrary file read
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3hrw-xv8h-9499.