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CVE-2024-4956 Public exploit High · 7.5 EPSS 19.2%

Nexus Repository 3 - Path Traversal

Sonatype · Nexus Repository

Summary

Sentence 1: Sonatype Nexus Repository 3 contains a path traversal flaw, classified as an improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory, that affects the product's file-handling functionality. Sentence 2: An unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit this flaw, without any user interaction or special configuration, to read arbitrary system files.

Official description · CVE.org

Path Traversal in Sonatype Nexus Repository 3 allows an unauthenticated attacker to read system files. Fixed in version 3.68.1.

Breakdown
76.6 / 100
Exploited
Yes, in VulnCheck KEV
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

First seen exploited 2 years after disclosure. Public exploit code (PoC-in-GitHub) appeared 7 days after disclosure.

  1. Disclosedday 0
  2. Public exploit codePoC-in-GitHub+7 days
  3. First seen exploitedVulnCheck KEV evidence+2 yrs

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

Also mentioned in 6 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)

Weaker evidence

Pulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.

References

1 link, grouped by NVD tag

vendor-advisory 1

support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/29416509323923
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