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CVE-2024-8037

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

Vulnerable juju hook tool abstract UNIX domain socket. When combined with an attack of JUJU_CONTEXT_ID, any user on the local system with access to the default network namespace may connect to the @/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-xxxx-yyyy/agent.socket and perform actions that are normally reserved to a juju charm.

Affected products

• Canonical Juju: before 2.9.51; from 3.1.0 before 3.1.10; from 3.2.0 through 3.2.4; from 3.3.0 before 3.3.7; from 3.4 before 3.4.6; from 3.5.0 before 3.5.4 — fixed in 2.9.51, 3.1.10, 3.3.7, 3.4.6, 3.5.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical Juju 2.9.51, 3.1.10, 3.3.7, 3.4.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/juju/juju/security/advisories/GHSA-8v4w-f4r9-7h6x
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8037

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