CVE-2024-22836 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An OS command injection vulnerability exists in Akaunting v3.1.3 and earlier. An attacker can manipulate the company locale when installing an app to execute system commands on the hosting server.

Published: 2024-02-08

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 38.2% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:akaunting:akaunting:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.38195.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://akaunting.com/
https://github.com/akaunting/akaunting/releases/tag/3.1.4
https://github.com/u32i/cve/tree/main/CVE-2024-22836

History

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Akaunting Akaunting

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-08T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-06-20T20:16:15.877Z

Reserved: 2024-01-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-22836

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T22:51:11.235Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-08T20:15:52.830

Modified: 2025-06-20T21:15:20.857

Link: CVE-2024-22836

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-78

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