🛡️ CVE-2024-8260 — open-policy-agent

🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-294 NVD
6.1
CVSS Score
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Description

OPA for Windows has an SMB force-authentication vulnerability

A SMB force-authentication vulnerability exists in all versions of OPA for Windows prior to v0.68.0. The vulnerability exists because of improper input validation, allowing a user to pass an arbitrary SMB share instead of a Rego file as an argument to OPA CLI or to one of the OPA Go library’s functions.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-8260 is classified as CWE-294: Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay. A captured authentication exchange can be replayed later because it is not bound to a single use.

Affected software

CVE-2024-8260 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/open-policy-agent/opa
  • open-policy-agent (fixed in 0.68.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 August 2024 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
pkg.go.dev (Web)
www.tenable.com (Web)

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 6.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-294
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-30
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/open-policy-agent/opa — —
open-policy-agent — 0.68.0

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