K-NetCat-2024-001.md

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Kaspersky Advisory

K-NetCat-2024-001 Netcat CMS: user enumeration

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Affected Hardware/Software

NetCat CMS v. 6.4.0.24126.2 and possibly others

Severity level

Impact: The vulnerability allows to gain a list of valid accounts in the system, which could be a basis for further attacks

Access Vector: Remote

CVSS v4 Vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS v4 Score

6.9

CVE ID

CVE-2024-8651

Vulnerability description

A vulnerability in NetCat CMS allows an attacker to send a specially crafted http request that can be used to check whether a user exists in the system.

Remediation

Apply patch from vendor https://netcat.ru/. Versions 6.4.0.24248 and on have the patch.

Acknowledgements

The vulnerability was discovered by Evgeny Velikoivanenko from Kaspersky (https://kaspersky.com)

References

https://github.com/klsecservices/Advisories/blob/master/K-NetCat-2024-001.md https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8651