🛡️ CVE-2024-42188 — connections

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level 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 low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

• 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: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-42188 is classified as CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions. Files or resources are created with permissions that are broader than they need to be.

Affected software

CVE-2024-42188 is recorded against 1 package.

• connections

Timeline and source

Published on 14 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

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

• CVE-2026-21788 (5.4 Medium, published 19 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-52603 (3.5 Low, published 20 Feb 2026)
• CVE-2025-52639 (3.5 Low, published 18 Nov 2025)
• CVE-2025-31961 (3.7 Low, published 15 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2024-42209 (3.5 Low, published 17 Jul 2025)
• CVE-2024-42208 (3.5 Low, published 4 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2024-30106 (3.5 Low, published 28 Oct 2024)
• CVE-2024-30118 (3.5 Low, published 9 Oct 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions) in other software:

• CVE-2026-53657 (8.2 High, published 14 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-48790 (5.5 Medium, published 11 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-21074 (published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-4793 (7.3 High, published 3 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-39875 (7.8 High, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-39874 (7.8 High, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-16247 (7.3 High, published 20 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-16246 (7.3 High, published 20 Jul 2026)

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