Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-57189

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 10 June 2025

Published
10 June 2025
Modified
20 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0075 73.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-57189 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Erxes Erxes. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 26.4% 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

Vulnerability details

In Erxes <1.6.2, an authenticated attacker can write to arbitrary files on the system using a Path Traversal vulnerability in the importHistoriesCreate GraphQL mutation handler.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

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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T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence
Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.
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T1053.003 Cron Execution
Adversaries may abuse the <code>cron</code> utility to perform task scheduling for initial or recurring execution of malicious code.
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T1543.002 Systemd Service Persistence
Adversaries may create or modify systemd services to repeatedly execute malicious payloads as part of persistence.
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T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys Persistence
Adversaries may modify the SSH <code>authorized_keys</code> file to maintain persistence on a victim host.
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T1685.006 Clear Linux or Mac System Logs Defense Impairment
Adversaries may clear system logs to hide evidence of an intrusion.
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T1685 Disable or Modify Tools Defense Impairment
Adversaries may disable, degrade, or tamper with security tools or applications (e.
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Why these techniques?

Path traversal enables arbitrary file writes, facilitating exploitation of public-facing app (T1190), web shell deployment (T1505.003), persistence via cron (T1053.003) or systemd (T1543.002), SSH key addition (T1098.004), log clearing (T1070.002), and disabling tools (T1562.001).

Affected Assets

erxes
erxes
≤ 1.6.2

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.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References