Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-6300

CVE-2024-6300:
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2024-6300 is a security vulnerability discovered in Conduit, a chat server software, affecting versions prior to 0.8.0. The vulnerability was disclosed on June 25, 2024, and involves incomplete cleanup when performing redactions in Conduit, which allows an attacker to check whether certain strings were present in the Protocol Data Unit (PDU) before redaction (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-459 (Incomplete Cleanup) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.3 MEDIUM (NIST) and 3.7 LOW (GitLab Inc.). The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N according to NIST's assessment, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and no privileges required (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows attackers to determine if specific strings were present in PDUs before redaction, potentially leading to information disclosure. This could compromise the confidentiality of redacted information in the chat server (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in Conduit version 0.8.0, released on June 12, 2024. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to address the security issue. The fix was part of a security-focused release that addressed multiple vulnerabilities (Conduit Changelog).

Community reactions

The vulnerability was considered significant enough to be included in a security-focused release of Conduit v0.8.0, which addressed multiple security vulnerabilities. The release notes indicate that administrators with untrusted users on their servers were particularly advised to update immediately (Conduit Changelog).