🛡️ CVE-2024-42360 — sequenceserver

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-77 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

SequenceServer lets you rapidly set up a BLAST+ server with an intuitive user interface for personal or group use. Several HTTP endpoints did not properly sanitize user input and/or query parameters. This could be exploited to inject and run unwanted shell commands. This vulnerability has been fixed in 3.1.2.

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. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-42360 is classified as CWE-77: Command Injection. User input is placed into a command that the system interprets, allowing extra commands to be appended to the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2024-42360 is recorded against 1 package.

  • sequenceserver (fixed in 3.1.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 August 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-77
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sequenceserver — 3.1.2

Exploit Protection

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