🛡️ CVE-2024-38890 — caterease

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, 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:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• 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-2024-38890 is classified as CWE-294: Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay. A captured authentication exchange can be replayed later because it is not bound to a single use.

Affected software

CVE-2024-38890 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 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. 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-2024-38887 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38886 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38885 (7.5 High, published 2 Aug 2024)
• 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-2024-38889 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-38882 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Aug 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-294: Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay) in other software:

• CVE-2026-18967 (6.4 Medium, published 6 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-68079 (9.8 Critical, published 6 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-53431 (published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-15614 (7.5 High, published 23 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-20779 (8.0 High, published 22 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-47133 (published 20 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-35149 (8.2 High, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-56453 (5.5 Medium, published 16 Jul 2026)

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