PT-2024-5205 · Cocoapods · Cocoapods

B4Rd4K + 1 · Published 2024-07-01 · Updated 2025-04-10 · CVE-2024-38366

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

10

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: CocoaPods (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue concerns the CocoaPods dependency manager, specifically the authentication server trunk.cocoapods.org. A problem was found in the part of the trunk that verifies whether a user has a real email address on signup. It used an rfc-822 library that executes a shell command to validate the email domain MX records validity via a DNS MX lookup. This lookup could be manipulated to execute a command on the trunk server, giving root access to the server and infrastructure. The issue was patched server-side in September 2023 and triggered a full user-session reset, as an attacker could have used this method to write to any Podspec in trunk.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

BDU:2024-05762

CVE-2024-38366

GHSA-X2X4-G675-QG7C

Affected Products

Cocoapods

References · 17

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38366.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/ReeFSpeK/CocoaPods-RCE_CVE-2024-38366 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://evasec.webflow.io/blog/eva-discovered-supply-chain-vulnerabities-in-cocoapods#2-remote-code-execution-on-the-cocoapods-trunk-server · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38366 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38366 · Security Note
• https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Trunk-RCEs-2023 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2024-05762 · Security Note
• https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/security/advisories/GHSA-x2x4-g675-qg7c · Note
• https://twitter.com/Action1corp/status/1810738388330229822 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/84956 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/RsSI47041968/status/1809950769950695901 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/cedwhitedragon/status/1910149748767490305 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/95095 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/echeloneyes/2908 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/95087 · Telegram Post