THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2024-22399
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2024-22399

Seata vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache Seata. When developers disable authentication on the Seata-Server and do not use the Seata client SDK dependencies, they may construct uncontrolled serialized malicious requests by directly sending bytecode based on the Seata private protocol. This issue affects Apache Seata: 2.0.0, from 1.0.0 through 1.8.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.0/1.8.1, which fixes the issue.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Seata
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-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2024-09-16

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 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2024-22399

  • Confirm whether Apache Seata is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2024-22399.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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