CVE-2024-38366

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38366

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38366.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-38366

Aliases

GHSA-x2x4-g675-qg7c

Published

2024-07-01T20:42:38Z

Modified

2026-10-28T02:30:37Z

Severity

10.0 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

CoacoaPods trunk RCE in email verification system rfc-822

Details

trunk.cocoapods.org is the authentication server for the CoacoaPods dependency manager. The part of trunk which verifies whether a user has a real email address on signup used a rfc-822 library which executes a shell command to validate the email domain MX records validity. It works via an DNS MX. This lookup could be manipulated to also execute a command on the trunk server, effectively giving root access to the server and the infrastructure. This issue was patched server-side with commit 001cc3a430e75a16307f5fd6cdff1363ad2f40f3 in September 2023. This RCE triggered a full user-session reset, as an attacker could have used this method to write to any Podspec in trunk.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-74"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38366.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/cocoapods/cocoapods

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/cocoapods/cocoapods

Events

Introduced

Fixed

001cc3a430e75a16307f5fd6cdff1363ad2f40f3

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "001cc3a430e75a16307f5fd6cdff1363ad2f40f3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38366.json"