Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2024-38366. PoCs published by ReeFSpeK.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository provides a detailed technical analysis of CVE-2024-38366, a remote code execution vulnerability in CocoaPods Trunk Server. It explains the root cause, code flow, and exploitation steps, including bypassing input validation and MX record manipulation.
Description
trunk.cocoapods.org is the authentication server for the CoacoaPods dependency manager. The part of trunk which verifies whether a user has a real email address on signup used a rfc-822 library which executes a shell command to validate the email domain MX records validity. It works via an DNS MX. This lookup could be manipulated to also execute a command on the trunk server, effectively giving root access to the server and the infrastructure. This issue was patched server-side with commit 001cc3a430e75a16307f5fd6cdff1363ad2f40f3 in September 2023. This RCE triggered a full user-session reset, as an attacker could have used this method to write to any Podspec in trunk.
Exploits (1)
This repository provides a detailed technical analysis of CVE-2024-38366, a remote code execution vulnerability in CocoaPods Trunk Server. It explains the root cause, code flow, and exploitation steps, including bypassing input validation and MX record manipulation.
References (3)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H