CVE-2024-6360 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability has been discovered in OpenText™ Vertica.
Incorrect permission assignment in OpenText Vertica allows attackers to abuse privileges and gain unauthorized access to the agent API key.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-6360?
CVE-2024-6360 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in OpenText™ Vertica, published on 2 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in OpenText™ Vertica could allow Privilege Abuse and result in unauthorized access or privileges to Vertica agent apikey. This issue affects Vertica: from 10.0 through 10.X, from 11.0 through 11.X, from 12.0 through 12.X, from 23.0 through 23.X, from 24.0 through 24.X.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6360?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Microfocus Vertica, Opentext Vertica.
How do I fix CVE-2024-6360?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6360 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-6360 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6360 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-856w-qx7w-v664.