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CVE-2024-2056: Artica Proxy Loopback Services Remotely Accessible Unauthenticated

Description

Services that are running and bound to the loopback interface on the Artica Proxy are accessible through the proxy service. In particular, the "tailon" service is running, running as the root user, is bound to the loopback interface, and is listening on TCP port 7050. Security issues associated with exposing this network service are documented at gvalkov's 'tailon' GitHub repo. Using the tailon service, the contents of any file on the Artica Proxy can be viewed.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-2056

Affected Products

Vendor: Artica Tech

Product: Artica Proxy

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 18.39% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-14 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2024-004.txt
https://github.com/gvalkov/tailon#security
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Mar/14

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