A vulnerability was found in TightVNC up to 2.8.83 on Windows. It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown functionality of the component Control Pipe Handler. The impact remains unknown. The summary by CVE is:

TightVNC (Server for Windows) before 2.8.84 allows attackers to connect to the control pipe via a network connection.

The advisory is shared at tightvnc.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-42049 since 07/28/2024. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 2.8.84 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (52322). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• TightVNC

Version

• 2.8.0
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5
• 2.8.6
• 2.8.7
• 2.8.8
• 2.8.9
• 2.8.10
• 2.8.11
• 2.8.12
• 2.8.13
• 2.8.14
• 2.8.15
• 2.8.16
• 2.8.17
• 2.8.18
• 2.8.19
• 2.8.20
• 2.8.21
• 2.8.22
• 2.8.23
• 2.8.24
• 2.8.25
• 2.8.26
• 2.8.27
• 2.8.28
• 2.8.29
• 2.8.30
• 2.8.31
• 2.8.32
• 2.8.33
• 2.8.34
• 2.8.35
• 2.8.36
• 2.8.37
• 2.8.38
• 2.8.39
• 2.8.40
• 2.8.41
• 2.8.42
• 2.8.43
• 2.8.44
• 2.8.45
• 2.8.46
• 2.8.47
• 2.8.48
• 2.8.49
• 2.8.50
• 2.8.51
• 2.8.52
• 2.8.53
• 2.8.54
• 2.8.55
• 2.8.56
• 2.8.57
• 2.8.58
• 2.8.59
• 2.8.60
• 2.8.61
• 2.8.62
• 2.8.63
• 2.8.64
• 2.8.65
• 2.8.66
• 2.8.67
• 2.8.68
• 2.8.69
• 2.8.70
• 2.8.71
• 2.8.72
• 2.8.73
• 2.8.74
• 2.8.75
• 2.8.76
• 2.8.77
• 2.8.78
• 2.8.79
• 2.8.80
• 2.8.81
• 2.8.82
• 2.8.83

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