CVE-2024-6299 Use of a Key Past its Expiration Date in Conduit

Medium 4.8 Published Updated

Attackers can forge requests and PDUs by exploiting expired keys due to missing expiry validation in the Conduit library.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-6299?

CVE-2024-6299 is a medium-severity vulnerability in The Conduit Contributors Conduit, published on 25 Jun 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Lack of consideration of key expiry when validating signatures in Conduit, allowing an attacker which has compromised an expired key to forge requests as the remote server, as well as PDUs with timestamps past the expiry date

Weakness: CWE-324

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6299?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Conduit Conduit.

How do I fix CVE-2024-6299?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6299 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-6299 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6299 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-283c-79hh-mfp9.

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