CVE-2024-38865 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-38865

Livestatus command injection in RestAPI

Vulnerability Description

Improper neutralization of livestatus command delimiters in a specific endpoint within RestAPI of Checkmk prior to 2.2.0p39, 2.3.0p25, and 2.1.0p51 (EOL) allows arbitrary livestatus command execution. Exploitation requires the attacker to have a contact group assigned to their user account and for an event to originate from a host with the same contact group or from an event generated with an unknown host.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Checkmk GmbH

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Affected Software

Checkmk
Vulnerable Versions:
2.3.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 10th, 2025
Last Modified: April 10th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-140

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.