Neo4j
CVE-2024-34517
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
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| Impact | CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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The Cypher component in Neo4j 5.0.0 through 5.18 mishandles IMMUTABLE privileges in some situations where an attacker already has admin access. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 1 package in maven
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-471. The Cypher component in Neo4j 5.0.0 through 5.18 mishandles IMMUTABLE privileges in some situations where an attacker already has admin access. Affected products include: Neo4J. Version information: through 5.18.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
The Cypher component in Neo4j 5.0.0 through 5.18 mishandles IMMUTABLE privileges in some situations where an attacker already has admin access.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
neo4j-contrib neo4j-apoc-procedures version before commit 45bc09c contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in
Neo4j through 3.4.18 (with the shell server enabled) exposes an RMI service that arbitrarily deserializes Java objects,
Due to incorrect access control in Neo4j Enterprise Database Server 3.4.x before 3.4.9, the setting of LDAP for authenti
APOC (Awesome Procedures on Cypher) is an add-on library for Neo4j. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability i
Neo4j APOC (Awesome Procedures on Cypher) before 4.3.0.7 and 4.x before 4.4.0.8 allows Directory Traversal to sibling di
Schema-level and Query/Mutation type-level @authentication directives are silently ignored for top-level @cypher fields
A failure in resetting the security context in some transaction actions in Neo4j Graph Database 4.2 and 4.3 could allow
Authorization bypass in @neo4j/graphql 7.0.0 through 7.6.3 lets an authenticated user read, create, and delete records t
JWT authentication bypass in @neo4j/graphql allows unauthenticated remote clients to forge arbitrary JWT claims over Gra
Authentication bypass in @neo4j/graphql exposes admin-restricted custom-resolver fields to any authenticated user holdin
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Neo4J 1.9.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentic
Bolt protocol handshake decoder in Neo4j Enterprise and Community Editions fails to distinguish overlong capability mask
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