wurmlab sequenceserver up to 3.1.1 HTTP Endpoint command injection

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A vulnerability was found in wurmlab sequenceserver up to 3.1.1. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component HTTP Endpoint. Executing a manipulation can lead to command injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-42360. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in wurmlab sequenceserver up to 3.1.1. It has been declared as very critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component HTTP Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-42360 since 07/30/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/17/2024). This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.1.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 457e52709f7f9ed2fceed59b3db564cb50785dba is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• wurmlab

Name

• sequenceserver

Version

• 3.1.0
• 3.1.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/wurmlab/sequenceserver/

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