CVE-2024-22033 (GCVE-0-2024-22033)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-16 13:42
Modified
2024-10-16 14:07
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
5.1 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
Summary
The OBS service obs-service-download_url was vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability. The attacker could provide a configuration to the service that allowed to execute command in later steps
References
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2024-22033
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SUSE SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5 Version: ?   < 0.2.1-bp155.3.3.1
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   SUSE SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6 Version: ?   < 0.2.1-bp156.2.3.1
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   SUSE openSUSE Leap 15.5 Version: ?   < 0.2.1-bp155.3.3.1
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   SUSE openSUSE Leap 15.6 Version: ?   < 0.2.1-bp156.2.3.1
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