Description
While assignment of a user to a team (bracket) in CTFd should be possible only once, at the registration, a flaw in logic implementation allows an authenticated user to reset it's bracket and then pick a new one, joining another team while a competition is already ongoing.
This issue impacts releases from 3.7.0 up to 3.7.4 and was addressed by pull request 2636 https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/pull/2636 included in 3.7.5 release.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| CTFd | CTFd | — | — |
References
- https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/pull/2636 patch
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/01/CVE-2024-11716 third-party-advisory
- https://ctfd.io/ product
- https://blog.ctfd.io/ctfd-3-7-5/ vendor-advisory
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Dec/21 mailing-list exploit