Vulnerability · Published Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2024-41961Elektra vulnerable to remote code execution in universal search

Critical 9.2

In plain English

A critical-severity code injection in elektra from sapcc. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.2Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 50.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Elektra is an opinionated Openstack Dashboard for Operators and Consumers of Openstack Services. A code injection vulnerability was found in the live search functionality of the Ruby on Rails based Elektra web application. An authenticated user can craft a search term containing Ruby code, which later flows into an `eval` sink which executes the code. Fixed in commit 8bce00be93b95a6512ff68fe86bf9554e486bc02.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
sapcc	elektra	< 8bce00be93b95a6512ff68fe86bf9554e486bc02

Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

References

https://github.com/sapcc/elektra/security/advisories/GHSA-6j2h-486h-487q x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/sapcc/elektra/commit/49aea3b365082681558bf3bf7bf4a51766cfc44d x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/sapcc/elektra/commit/8bce00be93b95a6512ff68fe86bf9554e486bc02 x_refsource_MISC