CVE-2024-8260 (GCVE-0-2024-8260)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-30 12:22 – Updated: 2024-08-30 13:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
OPA SMB Force-Authentication
Summary
A SMB force-authentication vulnerability exists in all versions of OPA for Windows prior to v0.68.0. The vulnerability exists because of improper input validation, allowing a user to pass an arbitrary SMB share instead of a Rego file as an argument to OPA CLI or to one of the OPA Go library’s functions.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-30 13:17 UTC
CWE
- CWE-294 - Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
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