CVE-2024-6834 Imperative Local Command Injection allows Activity Masking
Attackers can bypass authentication to access internal endpoints and manage components by exploiting improper certificate signing in the API Gateway.
- 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-2024-6834?
CVE-2024-6834 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Open Mainframe Project Zowe, published on 17 Jul 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in APIML Spring Cloud Gateway which leverages user privileges by unexpected signing proxied request by Zowe's client certificate. This allows access to a user to the endpoints requiring an internal client certificate without any credentials. It could lead to managing components in there and allow an attacker to handle the whole communication including user credentials.
Weakness: CWE-250
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6834?
How do I fix CVE-2024-6834?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6834 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2024-6834 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6834 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x95j-7ppj-485m.