How severe is CVE-2024-38856?

CVE-2024-38856 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.1 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 99.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2024-38856: Apache OFBiz: Unauthenticated endpoint could allow

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Apache OFBiz Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2024-08-27

Remediation due

2024-09-17

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
This vulnerability affects a common open-source component, third-party library, or a protocol used by different products. Please check with specific vendors for information on patching status. For more information, please see: https://lists.apache.org/thread/olxxjk6b13sl3wh9cmp0k2dscvp24l7w; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38856

Description

Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Apache OFBiz. This issue affects Apache OFBiz: through 18.12.14. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 18.12.15, which fixes the issue. Unauthenticated endpoints could allow execution of screen rendering code of screens if some preconditions are met (such as when the screen definitions don't explicitly check user's permissions because they rely on the configuration of their endpoints).

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.1 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 15, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2024-38856 to the KEV catalog 22 days after its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2024 is 21.5 days.
It is one of 41 Apache entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 5 added in 2024.
Its current EPSS score (99.4%) is higher than that of 88% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Software Foundation Apache OFBiz	0 to 18.12.14

References

5 Links

Vendor advisories

https://lists.apache.org/thread/olxxjk6b13sl3wh9cmp0k2dscvp24l7w

Issue trackers

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13128

Product pages

https://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html

Other references

Record Details

Published

2024-08-05

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

apache

Credited to

unam4; ruozhi; m1sn0w; kuiplatain; PaperPen@Timeline Sec; RacerZ; e0mlja; Donghyun; 4ra1n; godspeed; Hasib Vhora; pwnull; blckder02-YHLab; Xenc from SGLAB of Legendsec at Qi'anxin Group; Nicholas Zubrisky.; Y4tacker

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Tool categories

IAM Tools Application Security Tools

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CVE-2024-38856