🛡️ CVE-2024-5866 — privileged-access-service

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/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: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-5866 is classified as CWE-26: Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename'. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "/dir/../filename" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Affected software

CVE-2024-5866 is recorded against 1 package.

• privileged-access-service (fixed in 22.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 July 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

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

• CVE-2024-5865 (7.7 High, published 2 Jul 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-26: Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename') in other software:

• CVE-2026-46747 (4.3 Medium, published 9 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2022-45133 (6.5 Medium, published 22 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2025-53908 (published 16 Jul 2025)
• CVE-2024-28064 (9.8 Critical, published 18 May 2024)
• CVE-2024-29466 (8.8 High, published 30 Apr 2024)
• CVE-2024-31551 (7.5 High, published 26 Apr 2024)
• CVE-2024-20345 (6.5 Medium, published 6 Mar 2024)
• CVE-2024-25466 (8.0 High, published 16 Feb 2024)

Details

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