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CVE-2024-48911

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-48911 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting OpenCanary honeypots prior to version 0.9.4. It allows an unprivileged user to achieve root privilege escalation by modifying the configuration file, which is later executed by the root daemon. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:thinkst:opencanary:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.8MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
LOW
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 12th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: OpenCanaryFixed in: 0.9.5

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-pf5v-pqfv-x8jjmedium

OpenCanary Executes Commands From Potentially Writable Config File

Oct 14, 2024

References

github.com / thinkst/opencanary/commit/2c11575b1a3dd8b0df26a879ba856c0aa350c049
Patch
github.com / thinkst/opencanary/releases/tag/v0.9.4
Release Notes
github.com / thinkst/opencanary/security/advisories/GHSA-pf5v-pqfv-x8jj
Vendor Advisory