What is CVE-2024-6746?

CVE-2024-6746 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Easyspider, classified under CWE-24. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-07-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-6746?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-6746 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Path Traversal in Easyspider

CVE-2024-6746

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in NaiboWang EasySpider 0.6.2 on Windows. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file \EasySpider\resources\app\server.js of the component HTTP GET Request Handler. The manipulation with the input /../../../../../../../../../Windows/win.ini leads to path traversal: '../filedir'. The attack needs to be done within the local network. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier VDB-271477 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The code maintainer explains, that this is not a big issue "because the default is that the software runs locally without going through the Internet".

Published 2024-07-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.033 (88.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Easyspider — versions 0.6.2
Microsoft Windows
Naibowang Easyspider — versions 0.6.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

vuldb.com/ (technical-description, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
vuldb.com/ (signature, Permissions Required, permissions-required)
vuldb.com/ (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
github.com/NaiboWang/EasySpider/issues/466 (issue-tracking, Exploit, exploit, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6746?: CVE-2024-6746 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Easyspider, classified under CWE-24. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-07-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-6746?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-6746 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.