CVE-2020-24719

Exposed Erlang Cookie could lead to Remote Command Execution (RCE) attack. Communication between Erlang nodes is done by exchanging a shared secret (aka "magic cookie"). There are cases where the magic cookie is included in the content of the logs. An attacker can use the cookie to attach to an Erlang node and run OS level commands on the system running the Erlang node. Affects version: 6.5.1. Fix version: 6.6.0.

CVSS v3.1

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

23.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile

Published

2020-11-12

Updated

2024-08-04

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/misc/erlang_cookie_rce.rb

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2020-24717
• CVE-2020-24722
• CVE-2020-24716
• CVE-2020-24723
• CVE-2020-24713
• CVE-2020-24740