Appsmith up to 1.50 Restart API denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Appsmith up to 1.50. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Restart API. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-55963. Moreover, an exploit is present. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Appsmith up to 1.50. This affects an unknown code block of the component Restart API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in Appsmith before 1.51. A user on Appsmith that doesn't have admin permissions can trigger the restart API on Appsmith, causing a server restart. This is still within the Appsmith container, and the impact is limited to Appsmith's own server only, but there is a denial of service because it can be continually restarted. This is due to incorrect access control checks, which should check for super user permissions on the incoming request.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-55963 since 12/13/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. 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 1.51 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (52118). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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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

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