CVE-2024-40518
Published: 12 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-40518 is a high-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Seacms Seacms. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 18.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-38497
Vulnerability details
SeaCMS 12.9 has a remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused by admin_weixin.php directly splicing and writing the user input data into weixin.php without processing it, which allows authenticated attackers to exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands and…
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obtain system permissions.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.
Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.
Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.
Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.