What is CVE-2024-8260?

CVE-2024-8260 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, classified under Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-08-30.

How severe is CVE-2024-8260?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-8260 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows

CVE-2024-8260

A SMB force-authentication vulnerability exists in all versions of OPA for Windows prior to v0.68.0. The vulnerability exists because of improper input validation, allowing a user to pass an arbitrary SMB share instead of a Rego file as an argument to OPA CLI or to one of the OPA Go library’s functions.

EPSS: 0.003 (26.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-294 — Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

vulnreport@tenable.com (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8260?: CVE-2024-8260 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, classified under Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-08-30.
How severe is CVE-2024-8260?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8260 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.