TI-2024-14797 Aliases CVE-2024-22204 GHSA-hh2q-qv66-jcqg

Whoogle Search Limited File Write vulnerability

MEDIUM 57CWE-22Published 2024-01-23 · Updated 2025-06-17

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · Low · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Whoogle Search is a self-hosted metasearch engine. Versions 0.8.3 and prior have a limited file write vulnerability when the configuration options in Whoogle are enabled. The `config` function in `app/routes.py` does not validate the user-controlled `name` variable on line 447 and `config_data` variable on line 437. The `name` variable is insecurely concatenated in `os.path.join`, leading to path manipulation. The POST data from the `config_data` variable is saved with `pickle.dump` which leads to a limited file write. However, the data that is saved is earlier transformed into a dictionary and the `url` key value pair is added before the file is saved on the system. All in all, the issue allows us to save and overwrite files on the system that the application has permissions to, with a dictionary containing arbitrary data and the `url` key value, which is a limited file write. Version 0.8.4 contains a patch for this issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00751 55th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Fixed whoogle-search (benbusby): 0.8.4whoogle-search (PyPI): 0.8.4

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
benbusby	whoogle-search	before 0.8.4	0.8.4	Patch available	CNA
—	whoogle-search (PyPI)	before 0.8.4	0.8.4	Patch available	GHSA-hh2q-qv66-jcqg

whoogle-search Vendorbenbusby Affected before 0.8.4 Fixed in 0.8.4 Patch available CNA
whoogle-search (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 0.8.4 Fixed in 0.8.4 Patch available GHSA-hh2q-qv66-jcqg

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search::::::::	before 0.8.4	Vulnerable	benbusby

cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 0.8.4 Vulnerable ·benbusby

Remediation

Fix · CNA whoogle-search (benbusby) Fixed in 0.8.4
Fix · GHSA-hh2q-qv66-jcqg whoogle-search (PyPI) Fixed in 0.8.4 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-22204
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hh2q-qv66-jcqg

References

Exploit 1

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-186_GHSL-2023-189_benbusby_whoogle-search/

Patch 1

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/commit/3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda

Advisory 2

Other 6

TI-2024-14796 Whoogle Search Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-14990 Whoogle Search Cross-site Scripting vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
TI-2024-14798 Whoogle Search Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-35761 An issue in the component /models/config.py of Whoogle search v0.9.0 allows attackers to… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3

Sources

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