CVE-2024-0563
M-Files Server vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2024-0563) was discovered in M-Files Server affecting versions before 24.2 (excluding 23.2 SR7 and 23.8 SR5). The vulnerability was disclosed on February 23, 2024, and allows anonymous users to cause denial of service conditions affecting other anonymous users (M-Files Product).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling) and received a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (Medium) with a temporal score of 3.8. The CVSS vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and low privileges required (M-Files Product).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability enables anonymous users to trigger resource usage-based denial of service attacks that specifically affect other anonymous user sessions on the M-Files Server (M-Files Product).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade to M-Files Server version 24.2 or later. Alternatively, users on earlier versions can update to either 23.2 LTS SR7 or 23.8 LTS SR5, which also contain fixes for this vulnerability (M-Files Product).

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