Sunshine
CVE-2024-51738
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Primary weakness mitigation
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.7 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. EPSS exploitation probability: 1.84%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Mar 28, 2026
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-305. Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. In 0.23.1 and earlier, Sunshine's pairing protocol implementation does not validate request order and is thereby vulnerable to a MITM attack, potentially allowing an unauthenticated attacker to pair a client by hijacking a legitimate pairing attempt. This bug may also be used by a remote attacker to crash Sunshine. This vulnerability is fixed in 2025.118.151840. Affected products include: Lizardbyte Sunshine.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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2DescriptionGitHub Advisory
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. In 0.23.1 and earlier, Sunshine's pairing protocol implementation does not validate request order and is thereby vulnerable to a MITM attack, potentially allowing an unauthenticated attacker to pair a client by hijacking a legitimate pairing attempt. This bug may also be used by a remote attacker to crash Sunshine. This vulnerability is fixed in 2025.118.151840.
Executive ViewAI
Organizations using Sunshine face notable risk from CVE-2024-51738 rated CVSS 7.7. Exploitation could compromise the security of affected deployments. A patch is available and should be applied as part of regular vulnerability management.
Apply vendor patch. If immediate patching is not feasible: (1) Implement network-level access controls to limit exposure; (2) Enable enhanced monitoring and alerting; (3) Apply principle of least privilege.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)GitHub Advisory
Local privilege escalation in LizardByte Sunshine on Windows: the SunshineService service is registered with an unquoted
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remote
Authentication bypass in LizardByte Sunshine self-hosted game stream host (versions prior to 2026.516.143833) allows rem
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Prior to version 2025.628.4510, the web UI of Sunshine lacks p
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remote
A previously paired Moonlight client that still holds its private key can bypass Sunshine's 'Disable' control and regain
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is remotely
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Prior to version 2025.628.4510, the web UI of Sunshine lacks p
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.9).
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Sunshine for Windows (version v2025.122.141614 and likely prior ver
Sunshine for Windows, version v2025.122.141614, contains a DLL search-order hijacking vulnerability, allowing attackers
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