Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-22261

SQLi in Linuxfoundation Harbor 2.8.1 – 2.8.6

Published
11 June 2024
Modified
27 February 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 2.7
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0042 35th percentile
Risk Priority 27 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-22261 is a low-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled SQL Primary Key (CWE-566) vulnerability in Linuxfoundation Harbor. Its CVSS base score is 2.7 (Low).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 35th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-24 (Access Control Decisions) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

SQL-Injection in Harbor allows priviledge users to leak the task IDs

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

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.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

linuxfoundation
harbor
2.8.1 — 2.8.6 · 2.9.0 — 2.9.4 · 2.10.0 — 2.10.2

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V6.2.5

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 requires enforcement of authorizations on every access request, which directly stops a caller from reaching unauthorized rows via a supplied primary key.

AC-24 mandates that access-control decisions be applied to each request, preventing blind trust of a user-supplied primary key.

Developer testing and evaluation can discover SQLi flaws before deployment but does not stop their introduction.

Input validation directly stops untrusted data from reaching SQL query construction without neutralization.

Least privilege reduces the set of records an account can touch, limiting blast radius even if the key check is missing.

Secure engineering principles require parameterized queries and input sanitization that structurally eliminate SQLi.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 mostly match
prevents

Enforcing policy-based authorization and least privilege directly prevents actor-controlled primary-key access to unauthorized records.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices include input validation, parameterized queries, and authorization checks that eliminate this class of SQL primary-key bypass.

PR.AT-02 partial match
prevents

Training raises developer awareness of SQLi risks and can reduce introduction likelihood (partial) but removes none of the actual coding flaw's risk by itself since technical neutralization is still required.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing in development can detect missing authorization checks and unsafe SQL construction before release.

prevents

Enforcing information-access restrictions prevents direct use of user-supplied primary keys to bypass authorization checks.

prevents

Access-control policy sets the governance expectation that all data access must be authorized, indirectly supporting prevention of CWE-566.

prevents

Early warnings and shared best-practice information help organizations apply the latest remediation techniques against SQL-injection vulnerabilities.

prevents

Threat-intelligence feeds that surface new SQL-injection campaigns enable rapid updates to query-construction defenses and detection signatures before exploitation occurs.

prevents

Secure-coding rules and security testing phases mandate the use of parameterized queries or equivalent escaping, preventing the construction of dynamic SQL statements from untrusted input.

References