CVE-2024-7923 CRITICAL

CVE-2024-7923: Puppet-pulpcore: an authentication bypass vulnerability exists in pulpcore

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Update Infrastructure 4 for Cloud Providers
Weakness CWE-287 · Improper authentication
Published September 4, 2024
Last update November 11, 2025

CVSS base score

9.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability has been identified in Pulpcore when deployed with Gunicorn versions prior to 22.0, due to the puppet-pulpcore configuration. This issue arises from Apache's mod_proxy not properly unsetting headers because of restrictions on underscores in HTTP headers, allowing authentication through a malformed header. This flaw impacts all active Satellite deployments (6.13, 6.14 and 6.15) which are using Pulpcore version 3.0+ and could potentially enable unauthorized users to gain administrative access.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 4, 2024 CVE published
November 11, 2025 Record updated