CVE-2024-23639CWE-15CWE-610CWE-664

micronaut-core management endpoints vulnerable to drive-by localhost attack

Medium · published February 9, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Micronaut Framework is a modern, JVM-based, full stack Java framework designed for building modular, easily testable JVM applications with support for Java, Kotlin and the Groovy language. Enabled but unsecured management endpoints are susceptible to drive-by localhost attacks. While not typical of a production application, these attacks may have more impact on a development environment where such endpoints may be flipped on without much thought. A malicious/compromised website can make HTTP requests to `localhost`. Normally, such requests would trigger a CORS preflight check which would prevent the request; however, some requests are "simple" and do not require a preflight check. These endpoints, if enabled and not secured, are vulnerable to being triggered. Production environments typically disable unused endpoints and secure/restrict access to needed endpoints. A more likely victim is the developer in their local development host, who has enabled endpoints without security for the sake of easing development. This issue has been addressed in version 3.8.3. Users are advised to upgrade.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00261 · 16.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-15 · External Control of System or Configuration Setting; CWE-610 · Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere; CWE-664 · Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime
Published
2024-02-09T00:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 FEB 00:15Z
    micronaut-core management endpoints vulnerable to drive-by localhost attack
    cvelistv5