Code execution via evaluated API responses
Published Mar 3, 2025 · Updated Mar 4, 2025
Insecure deserialization in Heinlein Support GmbH Check_MK Python API 5.0.0 through 5.8.0 allows attackers to execute code via API responses. The _api_request method passes successful Multisite API response text to eval(), causing Python to interpret attacker-controlled expressions instead of parsing data. Exploitation requires a malicious or intercepted API response to reach a client operation; executed code has the client process privileges.
Summary
What happened
Insecure deserialization in Heinlein Support GmbH Check_MK Python API 5.0.0 through 5.8.0 allows attackers to execute code via API responses. The _api_request method passes successful Multisite API response text to eval(), causing Python to interpret attacker-controlled expressions instead of parsing data. Exploitation requires a malicious or intercepted API response to reach a client operation; executed code has the client process privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-47092
- Published
- Mar 3, 2025
- Updated
- Mar 4, 2025
- Vendor
- Heinlein Consulting GmbH
- Product
- Check_MK Python API
- Classifications
- CWE-502, CAPEC-384, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 3, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 4, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.0.0 <=5.8.0
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