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🛡️ CVE-2024-38885 — caterease

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-259 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

An issue in Horizon Business Services Inc. Caterease 16.0.1.1663 through 24.0.1.2405 and possibly later versions, allows a remote attacker to perform unauthorized access using known operating system credentials due to hardcoded SQL user credentials in the client application.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-38885 is classified as CWE-259: Use of Hard-coded Password. A password is embedded in the product, so anyone with the code or firmware knows it and it cannot be changed easily.

Affected software

CVE-2024-38885 is recorded against 1 package.

  • caterease (from 16.0.1.1663 up to 24.0.1.2405)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 August 2024 and last revised on 5 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

vuldb.com

Other advisories for this package

caterease has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-259: Use of Hard-coded Password) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-259
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-02
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
caterease 16.0.1.1663 24.0.1.2405

References

Permissions Required, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?id.273369

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