Critical Flaw in ProjectSend Under Active Exploitation Against Public-Facing Servers
Nov 27, 2024
Vulnerability / Software Security
A critical security flaw impacting the ProjectSend open-source file-sharing application has likely come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability, originally patched over a year-and-a-half ago as part of a commit pushed in May 2023, was not officially made available until August 2024 with the release of version r1720 . As of November 26, 2024, it has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-11680 (CVSS score: 9.8). Synacktiv, which reported the flaw to the project maintainers in January 2023, described it as an improper authorization check that allows an attacker to execute malicious code on susceptible servers. "An improper authorization check was identified within ProjectSend version r1605 that allows an attacker to perform sensitive actions such as enabling user registration and auto validation, or adding new entries in the whitelist of allowed extensions for uploaded files," it said in a report published in Ju...
