Appsmith up to 1.51 privilege escalation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Appsmith up to 1.51 and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2024-55964. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Appsmith up to 1.51. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in Appsmith before 1.52. An incorrectly configured PostgreSQL instance in the Appsmith image leads to remote command execution inside the Appsmith Docker container. The attacker must be able to access Appsmith, login to it, create a datasource, create a query against that datasource, and execute that query.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-55964 since 12/13/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.52 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Appsmith

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38
• 1.39
• 1.40
• 1.41
• 1.42
• 1.43
• 1.44
• 1.45
• 1.46
• 1.47
• 1.48
• 1.49
• 1.50
• 1.51

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