CVE-2024-46506 (GCVE-0-2024-46506)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-13 00:00
Modified
2025-05-13 19:09
Severity ?
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Summary
NetAlertX 23.01.14 through 24.x before 24.10.12 allows unauthenticated command injection via settings update because function=savesettings lacks an authentication requirement, as exploited in the wild in May 2025. This is related to settings.php and util.php.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
NetAlertX NetAlertX Version: 23.01.14   < 24.10.12
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