CVE-2024-2056

Artica Proxy vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

16.7%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Services that are running and bound to the loopback interface on the Artica Proxy are accessible through the proxy service. In particular, the "tailon" service is running, running as the root user, is bound to the loopback interface, and is listening on TCP port 7050. Security issues associated with exposing this network service are documented at gvalkov's 'tailon' GitHub repo. Using the tailon service, the contents of any file on the Artica Proxy can be viewed.

Affected vendor

Articatech

Affected product

Artica Proxy

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-288 — Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path
CWE-552 — Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Published

2024-03-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2024-2056

Confirm whether Articatech Artica Proxy is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2024-2056.
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