What is CVE-2024-40465?

CVE-2024-40465 is a high-severity vulnerability in Beego, classified under Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2024-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2024-40465?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Beego

CVE-2024-40465

An issue in beego v.2.2.0 and before allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the getCacheFileName function in file.go file

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

Published 2024-07-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (34.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 35th percentile — 34.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Beego

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

gist.github.com/nyxfqq/a5a2fc5147a1b34538e1ac05a3e56910 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-40465?: CVE-2024-40465 is a high-severity vulnerability in Beego, classified under Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2024-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2024-40465?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.