🛡️ CVE-2024-43409 — ghost

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Ghost's improper authentication allows access to member information and actions

Impact

Improper authentication on some endpoints used for member actions would allow an attacker to perform member-only actions, and read member information.

Vulnerable versions

This security vulnerability is present in Ghost v4.46.0-v5.89.5.

Ghost(Pro) customers are automatically updated to fixed versions ahead of disclosure.

If you're a self-hoster, please follow our [update instructions](https://ghost.org/docs/update).

Patches

v5.89.5 contains a fix for this issue.

Workarounds

Disable site membership in Ghost settings.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

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 low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-43409 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2024-43409 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • @tryghost/portal
  • ghost

Timeline and source

Published on 20 August 2024 and last revised on 29 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-20
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-10-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
@tryghost/portal — —
ghost — —

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