What is CVE-2024-9953?

CVE-2024-9953 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cert Vince, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-10-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-9953?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-9953 known to be exploited?

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

Deserialization in Cert Vince

CVE-2024-9953

A potential denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in CERT VINCE software versions prior to 3.0.8. An authenticated administrative user can inject an arbitrary pickle object into a user’s profile, which may lead to a DoS condition when the profile is accessed. While the Django server restricts unpickling to prevent server crashes, this vulnerability could still disrupt operations.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.004 (36.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cret@cert.org (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9953?: CVE-2024-9953 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cert Vince, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-10-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-9953?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-9953 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.