CVE-2024-45195 — ofbiz-framework
CRITICALCVE-2024-45195 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-425 vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-04) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Apache OFBiz: Confused controller-view authorization logic (forced browsing)
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-02-04. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-02-25.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-45195.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-45195 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Direct Request ('Forced Browsing') vulnerability in Apache OFBiz.
This issue affects Apache OFBiz: before 18.12.16.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 18.12.16, which fixes the issue.
Affected Products
ofbizapacheDetection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Fix
Upgrade the affected component to the fixed release for CVE-2024-45195, or apply your distribution's backported patch — distro builds are often patched at an older version number, so check your vendor's advisory rather than the upstream version alone.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How to detect CVE-2024-45195
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-45195 -u https://target- Template
- Apache OFBiz - Remote Code Execution
- Severity
- high
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can exploit missing view authorization checks to execute arbitrary code on Apache OFBiz servers.
- Remediation
- Users are recommended to upgrade to version 18.12.16, which fixes the issue.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (DhiyaneshDK), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
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