CVE-2024-38523 HIGH

CVE-2024-38523: Hush Line OTP issue

Vendor Scidsg
Product hushline
Weakness CWE-287 · Improper authentication
Published June 27, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Hush Line is a free and open-source, anonymous-tip-line-as-a-service for organizations or individuals. The TOTP authentication flow has multiple issues that weakens its one-time nature. Specifically, the lack of 2FA for changing security settings allows attacker with CSRF or XSS primitives to change such settings without user interaction and credentials are required. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.10.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 27, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated