OS Command Injection in Subversion - CVE-2024-45720

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OS Command Injection in Subversion - CVE-2024-45720

Published: October 14, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU98496
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45720
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation during "best fit" character encoding conversion. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system.

Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.


Affected software

Subversion
Fedora
subversion

How to mitigate CVE-2024-45720

Install updates from vendor's website.

Subversion - update to 1.14.4
subversion - update to 1.14.5-1.fc41

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