CVE-2024-24752: Bref Uploaded Files Not Deleted in Event-Driven Functions

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Bref enable serverless PHP on AWS Lambda. When Bref is used with the Event-Driven Function runtime and the handler is a `RequestHandlerInterface`, then the Lambda event is converted to a PSR7 object. During the conversion process, if the request is a MultiPart, each part is parsed and for each which contains a file, it is extracted and saved in `/tmp` with a random filename starting with `bref_upload_`. The flow mimics what plain PHP does but it does not delete the temporary files when the request has been processed. An attacker could fill the Lambda instance disk by performing multiple MultiPart requests containing files. This vulnerability is patched in 2.1.13.

Affected products

brefphp bref: before 2.1.13 — fixed in 2.1.13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: brefphp bref 2.1.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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