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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.1

CVE-2024-22120 in the critical feed json

Time Based SQL Injection in Zabbix Server Audit Log

published 2024-05-17 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-19716

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
76.6%
EPSS 76.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Zabbix server can perform command execution for configured scripts. After command is executed, audit entry is added to "Audit Log". Due to "clientip" field is not sanitized, it is possible to injection SQL into "clientip" and exploit time based blind SQL injection.

Patch / fix

  • zabbix zabbix 6.0.28rc1, 6.4.13rc1, 7.0.0beta2
  • zabbix zabbix_server 6.0.28rc1, 6.4.13rc1, 7.0.0beta2
  • zabbix Debian 14, Debian 13 1:6.0.29+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-22120

  • zabbix Alpine 3.18 6.4.15-r0
  • zabbix Alpine 3.19 6.4.14-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-22120

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-22120 updated cvss 9.1

zabbix: command execution for configured scripts

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

76.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • support.zabbix.com https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-24505 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Zabbix Zabbix
  • zabbix zabbix_server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.