CVE-2024-56523 describes a critical vulnerability in Radware Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) versions prior to 2025-05-07, allowing remote attackers to bypass firewall filters. This is achieved by embedding random data within the HTTP request body when utilizing the HTTP GET method. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality and integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community. Radware has stated that patches for this vulnerability were released in 2023.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2025-05-07CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:radware:cloud_waf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.