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high 7.5

CVE-2024-38479 json

Apache Traffic Server: Cache key plugin is vulnerable to cache poisoning attack

published last yr. modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2024-37359

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Traffic Server.

This issue affects Apache Traffic Server: from 8.0.0 through 8.1.11, from 9.0.0 through 9.2.5.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.2.6, which fixes the issue, or 10.0.2, which does not have the issue.

Patch / fix

  • apache traffic_server 9.2.6
  • trafficserver Debian 12 9.2.5+ds-0+deb12u2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38479

  • trafficserver9 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 9.2.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-38479

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-38479 updated cvss 8.3

trafficserver: Apache Traffic Server: Cache key plugin is vulnerable to cache poisoning attack

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Traffic Server
  • apache_software_foundation apache_traffic_server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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