CVE-2024-50603
CRITICALCVE-2024-50603 is a critical-severity (CVSS 10) OS Command Injection vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-01-16) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
An issue was discovered in Aviatrix Controller before 7.1.4191 and 7.2.x before 7.2.4996. Due to the improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command, an unauthenticated…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-01-16. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-02-06.
- 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-2024-50603.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-50603 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 395,308 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
An issue was discovered in Aviatrix Controller before 7.1.4191 and 7.2.x before 7.2.4996. Due to the improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command, an unauthenticated attacker is able to execute arbitrary code. Shell metacharacters can be sent to /v1/api in cloud_type for list_flightpath_destination_instances, or src_cloud_type for flightpath_connection_test.
Affected Products
controlleraviatrixResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & 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`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2024-50603 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does.
How to detect CVE-2024-50603
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-50603 -u https://target- Template
- Aviatrix Controller - Remote Code Execution
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities to compromise the system.
- Remediation
- Update to the latest patched version addressing CVE-2024-50603.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (newlinesec, securing.pl), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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