🛡️ CVE-2024-38887 — caterease

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 high, availability high.

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:H/A:H

• 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: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-38887 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2024-38887 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. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

packetstormsecurity.com
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:

• CVE-2024-38884 (7.8 High, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38891 (7.5 High, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38883 (9.1 Critical, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38890 (8.4 High, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38882 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38889 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38881 (7.5 High, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38888 (6.8 Medium, published 2 Aug 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-78: OS Command Injection) in other software:

• CVE-2023-49900 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-0815 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-5002 (6.0 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-40189 (9.8 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2021-21386 (9.5 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2022-38649 (9.8 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2022-45899 (6.5 Medium, published 8 May 2026)
• CVE-2022-50994 (8.1 High, published 8 May 2026)

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