Linguistic Lumberjack: Attacking Cloud Services via Logging Endpoints (Fluent Bit – CVE-2024-4323)

From tenable.com

Key takeaways

  • Fluent Bit is a logging utility heavily used by all major cloud providers.
  • Tenable Research discovered a critical vulnerability dubbed Linguistic Lumberjack (CVE-2024-4323) within Fluent Bit’s built-in HTTP server that could potentially allow for denial of service, information disclosure, or remote code execution.
  • The vulnerability was introduced in version 2.0.7 and exists thru 3.0.3. It is fixed in the main source branch and is expected in release 3.0.4.
  • The issue can be resolved by …
    • … upgrading to the latest version of Fluent Bit.
    • … appropriately limiting access to the vulnerable endpoint.

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