🛡️ CVE-2024-56524 — cloud-waf

🔴 CVSS 9.1 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-116 NVD
9.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Radware Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) before 2025-05-07 allows remote attackers to bypass firewall filters by adding a special character to the request.

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 high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-56524 is classified as CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. Output is emitted without encoding it for the context it lands in, so data is interpreted as markup or code.

Affected software

CVE-2024-56524 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cloud-waf (fixed in 2025-05-07)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 May 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

radware.com
www.kb.cert.org

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-116
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-05-12
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cloud-waf — 2025-05-07

References

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/722229

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