Vulnerability · Published Mar 26, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2024-55963
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity improper access control in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 32.9% (higher than 98% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Appsmith before 1.51. A user on Appsmith that doesn't have admin permissions can trigger the restart API on Appsmith, causing a server restart. This is still within the Appsmith container, and the impact is limited to Appsmith's own server only, but there is a denial of service because it can be continually restarted. This is due to incorrect access control checks, which should check for super user permissions on the incoming request.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H