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High · 7.5 Public exploit CVE-2024-52940 EUVD-2024-45974GHSA-r2ph-vgmf-8gqh

AnyDesk through 8.1.0 on Windows, when Allow Direct Connections is enabled, inadvertently exposes a public IP address within network traffi…

Published Nov 18, 2024 · Updated Nov 4, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

AnyDesk through 8.1.0 on Windows, when Allow Direct Connections is enabled, inadvertently exposes a public IP address within network traffic. The attacker must know the victim's AnyDesk ID.

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.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 1 repository

  • MKultra6969/AnySniff ★ 4 · Dec 2, 2024

    AnySniff is a tool for monitoring TCP connections of processes like AnyDesk on Windows. It uses the CVE-2024-52940 vulnerability to track open connections and log IPs, ports, and other details.

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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