THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2024-23749
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2024-23749

Kitty vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
KiTTY versions 0.76.1.13 and before is vulnerable to command injection via the filename variable, occurs due to insufficient input sanitization and validation, failure to escape special characters, and insecure system calls (at lines 2369-2390). This allows an attacker to add inputs inside the filename variable, leading to arbitrary code execution.
Affected vendor
9bis
Affected product
Kitty
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2024-02-09

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2024-23749

  • Confirm whether 9bis Kitty is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2024-23749.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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