CVE-2024-21649: Remote code execution

8.8 CVSS

Description

The vantage6 technology enables to manage and deploy privacy enhancing technologies like Federated Learning (FL) and Multi-Party Computation (MPC). Prior to 4.2.0, authenticated users could inject code into algorithm environment variables, resulting in remote code execution. This vulnerability is patched in 4.2.0.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-21649

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem Types

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

Vendor: vantage6

Product: vantage6

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 3.6% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 87.2% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-07 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21649
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-w9h2-px87-74vx
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/eac19db737145d3ca987adf037a454fae0790ddd

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