CVE-2024-38866
Linux Debian vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A vulnerability has been identified in Nagvis before version 1.9.47, tracked as CVE-2024-38866. The vulnerability relates to improper neutralization of input which can lead to livestatus injection. The issue was discovered and fixed in May 2025, with a CVSS 4.0 Base Score of 5.3 (MEDIUM) (Wiz).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-140 (Improper Neutralization of Delimiters) and affects the dynmap functionality of Nagvis. The CVSS 4.0 vector string is CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and requiring low privileges (NagVis Changelog).

Impact

The vulnerability can lead to livestatus injection attacks, potentially affecting the system's security by allowing manipulation of livestatus queries. The impact is primarily focused on system integrity, as indicated by the CVSS scoring which shows low impact on confidentiality and availability but some impact on system integrity (Wiz).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in Nagvis version 1.9.47. Users are advised to upgrade to this version to mitigate the risk. The fix specifically addresses the livestatus injection vulnerability through improved input validation in the dynmap functionality (NagVis Changelog, GitHub PR).

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