CVE-2024-8509

HIGH 7.5

Migration toolkit for virtualization: forklift-controller: empty bearer token may perform authentication

CVSS Score

7.5

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

A vulnerability was found in Forklift Controller. There is no verification against the authorization header except to ensure it uses bearer authentication. Without an Authorization header and some form of a Bearer token, a 401 error occurs. The presence of a token value provides a 200 response with the requested information.

CWE	CWE-285
Published	Sep 6, 2024
Last Updated	Nov 20, 2025

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.6

All versions affected

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6487 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8509 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310406

Credits

This issue was discovered by Andrew Block (Red Hat).