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CVE-2024-40442: Doccano privilege escalation via crafted REST request
- Source
- NVD(opens in a new tab)
- Identifier
- CVE-2024-40442
- Published
- Record updated
- Known exploitation
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog at the last check.
- EPSS
- 1.0%
Summary
CVE-2024-40442 affects Doccano, an open source annotation tool for machine learning practitioners, at version 1.8.4, and the Doccano Auto Labeling Pipeline module at version 0.1.23. The source says a remote attacker can escalate privileges by sending a crafted REST request. The weakness is classified as CWE-94, Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'), and NVD had not yet provided an assessment at the time of publication.
Mitigation
The source does not state a fix yet. Check the original advisory for updates.
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