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CVE-2024-25420

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-03-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-273

Description

An issue in Ignite Realtime Openfire before 4.8.1 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the admin.authorizedJIDs system property component.

Affected products

• igniterealtime Openfire: through 4.9.0

References

• https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/blob/main/xmppserver/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/openfire/admin/AdminManager.java
• https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/pull/2411
• https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/releases/tag/v4.8.1
• https://igniterealtime.atlassian.net/browse/OF-2758
• https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/openfire-cves-explained-CVE-2024-25420-CVE-2024-25421
• https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/
• https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/blob/main/xmppserver/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/openfire/admin/AdminManager.java
• https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/openfire-cves-explained-CVE-2024-25420-CVE-2024-25421
• https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/

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