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CVE-2024-48766

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 67.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-698

Description

NetAlertX 24.7.18 before 24.10.12 allows unauthenticated file reading because an HTTP client can ignore a redirect, and because of factors related to strpos and directory traversal, as exploited in the wild in May 2025. This is related to components/logs.php.

Affected products

• NetAlertX: from 24.7.18 before 24.10.12 — fixed in 24.10.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: NetAlertX 24.10.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/netalertx_file_read.rb
• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/research/cve-2024-46506-rce-in-netalertx/
• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/research/cve-2024-46506-rce-in-netalertx/

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