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Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVE-2024-21855

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

An Authentication Bypass vulnerability exists in the HTTP API functionality of the github.com/mayuresh82/gocast package. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands. This flaw can be exploited through an unauthenticated HTTP request.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published