VulnerabilityAnalyzed

CVE-2024-42360

This could be exploited to inject and run unwanted shell commands.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.58%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.58%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

SequenceServer lets you rapidly set up a BLAST+ server with an intuitive user interface for personal or group use. Several HTTP endpoints did not properly sanitize user input and/or query parameters. This could be exploited to inject and run unwanted shell commands. This vulnerability has been fixed in 3.1.2.

CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.58% probability · 46th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-77
Affected: wurmlab/sequenceserver
Source: security-advisories@github.com

References

https://github.com/wurmlab/sequenceserver/commit/457e52709f7f9ed2fceed59b3db564cb50785dbaPatch
https://github.com/wurmlab/sequenceserver/security/advisories/GHSA-qv32-5wm2-p32hVendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.