SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2024-38366

CVE-2024-38366 — trunk

trunk.cocoapods.org is the authentication server for the CoacoaPods dependency manager. The part of trunk which verifies whether a user has a real email address on signup used a rfc-822 library which executes a shell command to validate the email domain MX records validity. It wo

CVSS
10.0 CRITICAL
EPSS
58.46% (top 1.80%)
CWE
CWE-74
Published
2024-07-01T20:42:38.281Z
Last modified
2024-08-02T04:04:25.256Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

trunk.cocoapods.org is the authentication server for the CoacoaPods dependency manager. The part of trunk which verifies whether a user has a real email address on signup used a rfc-822 library which executes a shell command to validate the email domain MX records validity. It works via an DNS MX. This lookup could be manipulated to also execute a command on the trunk server, effectively giving…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
CocoaPodsCocoaPods< 001cc3a430e75a16307f5fd6cdff1363ad2f40f3

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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