Description
An issue was discovered in Vaultwarden (formerly Bitwarden_RS) 1.30.3. A vulnerability has been identified in the authentication and authorization process of the endpoint responsible for altering the metadata of an emergency access. It permits an attacker with granted emergency access to escalate their privileges by changing the access level and modifying the wait time. Consequently, the attacker can gain full control over the vault (when only intended to have read access) while bypassing the necessary wait period.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Alpine
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine v3.24 | vaultwarden | 1.32.0-r0 | — |
| Alpine v3.23 | vaultwarden | 1.32.0-r0 | — |
| Alpine v3.22 | vaultwarden | 1.32.0-r0 | — |
| Alpine v3.21 | vaultwarden | 1.32.0-r0 | — |
| Alpine v3.20 | vaultwarden | 1.32.0 | — |
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
GitHub 1 repository
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l4rm4nd/PoC-CVE-2024-39924 ★ 0 · Jun 2, 2025
PoC for CVE-2024-39924
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2024-2147 Vaultwarden: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Sep 15, 2024