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Apache fixes Traffic Control bug that attackers could exploit


Security teams should immediately patch 9.9 vulnerability in web content distribution platform.

The flaw — CVE-2024-45387 — lets attackers with privileged roles such as “admin” or “operations” inject malicious SQL commands through specially crafted PUT requests. “Exploiting this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized data access, modification, or deletion, severely impacting the integrity and availability of the content delivery network (CDN) services managed by Apache Traffic Control,” said Jason Soroko, senior fellow at Sectigo. Lawrence Pingree, vice president at Dispersive, added that this hack demonstrates a method for letting the hacker directly access an SQL database.

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