Cortex 0.42.1 TLS Certificate Verification makeOperatorRequest information disclosure

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Cortex 0.42.1. Affected is the function makeOperatorRequest of the component TLS Certificate Verification. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-41265. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Cortex 0.42.1. Affected by this issue is the function makeOperatorRequest of the component TLS Certificate Verification. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A TLS certificate verification issue discovered in cortex v0.42.1 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via the makeOperatorRequest function.

The advisory is shared for download at gist.github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-41265 since 07/18/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Cortex

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• 0.42.1

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