CVE-2024-35184 (GCVE-0-2024-35184)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-15 21:29 – Updated: 2024-08-02 03:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
paperless-ngx's remote user auth via header works even when disabling it for API
Summary
Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms physical documents into a searchable online archive. Starting in version 2.5.0 and prior to version 2.8.6, remote user authentication allows API access even if API access is explicitly disabled. Version 2.8.6 contains a patchc for the issue.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-16 15:50 UTC
CWE
- CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
4 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/se… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/pu… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/co… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/re… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| paperless-ngx | paperless-ngx |
Affected:
>= 2.5.0, < 2.8.6
|
guessed | |
| paperless-ngx | paperless-ngx |
Affected:
2.5.0 , < 2.8.6
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"cveId": "CVE-2024-35184",
"datePublished": "2024-05-15T21:29:33.712Z",
"dateReserved": "2024-05-10T14:24:24.340Z",
"dateUpdated": "2024-08-02T03:07:46.811Z",
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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