🛡️ CVE-2024-45408 — elabftw

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. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• 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: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-45408 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-2024-45408 is recorded against 1 package.

• elabftw (from 4.4.0 up to 5.1.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 October 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

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

• CVE-2026-28511 (4.3 Medium, published 1 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-28510 (5.9 Medium, published 5 May 2026)
• CVE-2025-25206 (8.3 High, published 14 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2024-52586 (5.4 Medium, published 9 Dec 2024)
• CVE-2024-47826 (3.5 Low, published 14 Oct 2024)
• CVE-2024-25632 (8.6 High, published 1 Oct 2024)
• CVE-2024-28100 (8.9 High, published 2 Sep 2024)
• CVE-2024-25633 (5.4 Medium, published 15 Aug 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-284: Improper Access Control) in other software:

• CVE-2022-29160 (2.0 Low, published 12 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-45438 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2016-0757 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2002-0170 (8.0 High, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2000-1212 (published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-31231 (5.9 Medium, published 22 May 2026)
• CVE-2023-24215 (9.1 Critical, published 18 May 2026)
• CVE-2023-21968 (3.7 Low, published 8 May 2026)

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