CVE-2024-32973 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-32973: Remote for TLS session may be trusted despite constraints in Pluto lang

Vendor Plutolang
Product Pluto
Weakness CWE-284
Published May 1, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

4.8/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Pluto is a superset of Lua 5.4 with a focus on general-purpose programming. In affected versions an attacker with the ability to actively intercept network traffic would be able to use a specifically-crafted certificate to fool Pluto into trusting it to be the intended remote for the TLS session. This results in the HTTP library and socket.starttls providing less transport integrity than expected. This issue has been patched in pull request #851 which has been included in version 0.9.3. Users are advised to upgrade. there are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 1, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated