Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-0655

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 18 January 2024

Published
18 January 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0005 16.9th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-0655 is a medium-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Xxyopen Novel-Plus. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 16.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

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Vulnerability details

A vulnerability has been found in Novel-Plus 4.3.0-RC1 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /novel/bookSetting/list. The manipulation of the argument sort leads to sql injection. The exploit has been disclosed to…

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the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-251383.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1505 Server Software Component Persistence
Adversaries may abuse legitimate extensible development features of servers to establish persistent access to systems.
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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing web application (/novel/bookSetting/list) enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and abuse of server software components for arbitrary SQL query execution (T1505).

Affected Assets

xxyopen
novel-plus
4.3.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-89

Penetration testing uses SQL injection payloads against database interfaces, identifying and supporting fixes for SQL injection weaknesses.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-89

Validates query inputs to prevent SQL syntax or command manipulation.

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