🛡️ CVE-2024-41255 — filestash

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. 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:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• 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-2024-41255 is classified as CWE-453: Insecure Default Variable Initialization. The product, by default, initializes an internal variable with an insecure or less secure value than is possible.

Affected software

CVE-2024-41255 is recorded against 2 packages.

• filestash
• github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

Timeline and source

Published on 31 July 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

gist.github.com

Other advisories for this package

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

• CVE-2024-41258 (5.3 Medium, published 31 Jul 2024)
• CVE-2024-41256 (5.9 Medium, published 31 Jul 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-453: Insecure Default Variable Initialization) in other software:

• CVE-2026-19212 (4.3 Medium, published 7 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-0082 (7.8 High, published 17 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2025-61926 (published 9 Oct 2025)
• CVE-2025-48563 (7.8 High, published 4 Sep 2025)
• CVE-2025-47945 (9.1 Critical, published 17 May 2025)
• CVE-2024-49120 (8.1 High, published 12 Dec 2024)
• CVE-2024-39916 (6.4 Medium, published 12 Jul 2024)
• GHSA-879p-8gw4-mcpw (2.0 Low, published 15 Mar 2024)

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