CVE-2024-49361 HIGH

CVE-2024-49361: Potential Vulnerability in ACON Library: Improper Input Validation Leading to Malicious Code Execution

Vendor Torinriley
Product ACON
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published October 18, 2024
Last update October 18, 2024

CVSS base score

8.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

What the vulnerability does

01Description

ACON is a widely-used library of tools for machine learning that focuses on adaptive correlation optimization. A potential vulnerability has been identified in the input validation process, which could lead to arbitrary code execution if exploited. This issue could allow an attacker to submit malicious input data, bypassing input validation, resulting in remote code execution in certain machine learning applications using the ACON library. All users utilizing ACON’s input-handling functions are potentially at risk. Specifically, machine learning models or applications that ingest user-generated data without proper sanitization are the most vulnerable. Users running ACON on production servers are at heightened risk, as the vulnerability could be exploited remotely. As of time of publication, it is unclear whether a fix is available.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 18, 2024 CVE published
October 18, 2024 Record updated