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TI-2024-20595 Aliases CVE-2024-31218

Missing Authentication for Critical Function in Webhood backend

Priority MEDIUM 50CWE-306Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-306.

Summary

Webhood is a self-hosted URL scanner used analyzing phishing and malicious sites. Webhood's backend container images in versions 0.9.0 and earlier are subject to Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to send a HTTP request to the database (Pocketbase) admin API to create an admin account. The Pocketbase admin API does not check for authentication/authorization when creating an admin account when no admin accounts have been added. In its default deployment, Webhood does not create a database admin account. Therefore, unless users have manually created an admin account in the database, an admin account will not exist in the deployment and the deployment is vulnerable. Versions starting from 0.9.1 are patched. The patch creates a randomly generated admin account if admin accounts have not already been created i.e. the vulnerability is exploitable in the deployment. As a workaround, users can disable access to URL path starting with `/api/admins` entirely. With this workaround, the vulnerability is not exploitable via network.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00715 53rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed webhood (webhood-io): 0.9.1

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
webhood-iowebhoodbefore 0.9.10.9.1Patch availableCNA
  • webhood Vendorwebhood-io Affected before 0.9.1 Fixed in 0.9.1 Patch available CNA

CPE names CISA-ADP · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:webhoodio:webhood:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*———
  • cpe:2.3:a:webhoodio:webhood:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·—

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA webhood (webhood-io) Fixed in 0.9.1

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-31218

References

Sources

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