Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-8865

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 15 September 2024

Published
15 September 2024
Modified
17 September 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 5.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0034 57.0th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-8865 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Composio Composio. Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Local System (T1005); ranked in the top 43.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as AI Agent Protocols and Integrations; in the Privacy and Disclosure risk domain; MITRE ATLAS techniques in scope: Adversarial AI Attack Implementations (AML.T0016.000), AML.T0040.000, Infer Training Data Membership (AML.T0024.000).

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in composiohq composio up to 0.5.8 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function path of the file composio\server\api.py. The manipulation of the argument file leads to path traversal. The exploit has been…

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disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
AI Agent Protocols and Integrations
Risk Domain
Privacy and Disclosure
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Composio is an open-source platform for building AI agents with integrations for tools and APIs used with LLMs, making it directly related to AI agent protocols and integrations. The vulnerability is a path traversal in its server API.

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
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T1552.001 Credentials In Files Credential Access
Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
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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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Why these techniques?

Path traversal in public-facing Composio server API (T1190) enables remote arbitrary file read from local system (T1005), including sensitive files like SSH private keys (T1081).

MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI

MITRE ATLAS techniques

AML.T0016.000: Adversarial AI Attack ImplementationsAML.T0040.000AML.T0024.000: Infer Training Data Membership

Affected Assets

composio
composio
≤ 0.5.8

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.

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