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medium 5.4

CVE-2024-21622 json

Craft CMS Privilege Escalation

published 2y ago modified 2mo ago also GHSA-j5g9-j7r4-6qvx , EUVD-2024-0374

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Craft is a content management system. This is a potential moderate impact, low complexity privilege escalation vulnerability in Craft starting in 3.x prior to 3.9.6 and 4.x prior to 4.4.16 with certain user permissions setups. This has been fixed in Craft 4.4.16 and Craft 3.9.6. Users should ensure they are running at least those versions.

Patch / fix

  • packagist craftcms/cms 3.9.6, 4.5.11
  • craftcms craft_cms 3.9.6

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist craftcms/cms
>=4.0.0-RC1, <4.5.11
>=3.0.0, <3.9.6
4.5.11
3.9.6

Affected products

  • craftcms cms

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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