CVE-2024-8509 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2024-8509

Migration toolkit for virtualization: forklift-controller: empty bearer token may perform authentication

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability was found in Forklift Controller.  There is no verification against the authorization header except to ensure it uses bearer authentication. Without an Authorization header and some form of a Bearer token, a 401 error occurs. The presence of a token value provides a 200 response with the requested information.

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

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • This issue was discovered by Andrew Block (Red Hat).

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.6
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.6.6-2

Timeline

Official Publish: September 6th, 2024
Last Modified: November 20th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)