Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-4871

Medium

Published: 14 May 2024

Published
14 May 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0304 87.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-4871 is a medium-severity Key Exchange without Entity Authentication (CWE-322) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 13.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in Satellite. When running a remote execution job on a host, the host's SSH key is not being checked. When the key changes, the Satellite still connects it because it uses "-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no". This flaw can…

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lead to a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM), denial of service, leaking of secrets the remote execution job contains, or other issues that may arise from the attacker's ability to forge an SSH key. This issue does not directly allow unauthorized remote execution on the Satellite, although it can leak secrets that may lead to it.

CWE(s)
CWE-322

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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