CVE-2024-8509 (GCVE-0-2024-8509)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-06 15:17 – Updated: 2025-11-20 07:34
VLAI
Title
Migration toolkit for virtualization: forklift-controller: empty bearer token may perform authentication
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Forklift Controller.  There is no verification against the authorization header except to ensure it uses bearer authentication. Without an Authorization header and some form of a Bearer token, a 401 error occurs. The presence of a token value provides a 200 response with the requested information.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6487 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8509 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310406 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , < 2.6.6 (semver)
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.6 Unaffected: 2.6.6-2 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:migration_toolkit_virtualization:2.6::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:migration_toolkit_virtualization:2.6::el8
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Date Public
2024-09-06 00:00
Credits
This issue was discovered by Andrew Block (Red Hat).
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