Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2024-23687 is a critical hard-coded credential issue in FOLIO mod-data-export-spring. An unauthenticated attacker could use exposed credentials to reach critical APIs and alter user data, SSO-related configuration, and fees or fines. This is high business urgency for affected FOLIO deployments.
Executive priority
Treat as urgent for any organization running affected FOLIO versions. Prioritize confirmation and upgrade because the issue can enable unauthenticated changes to identity-related configuration and patron financial records.
Technical view
Affected org.folio:mod-data-export-spring versions before 1.5.4 and 2.0.0 through 2.0.2 contain hard-coded credentials. The vulnerability is network exploitable with low complexity, no privileges, and no user interaction. CVSS 3.1 is 9.1 with high confidentiality and integrity impact.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to FOLIO deployments using org.folio:mod-data-export-spring in the listed affected version ranges. Internet-facing or broadly reachable FOLIO APIs would raise operational risk, but the supplied sources do not define deployment prevalence.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not show CISA KEV listing or cited evidence of active exploitation. The risk remains serious because the issue is unauthenticated, network reachable, and affects critical administrative and data-changing APIs.
Researcher notes
Evidence supports CWE-798 hard-coded credentials with critical API access. Do not assume exploitation in the wild from the supplied data. Focus validation on version inventory, patch presence, access review, and integrity checks for the impacted FOLIO data domains.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade off affected versions before 1.5.4 and 2.0.0 through 2.0.2.
- Apply vendor guidance from the GitHub advisory and linked patch.
- Restrict network access to FOLIO administrative APIs where operationally possible.
- Rotate any credentials that may have been exposed or reused.
- Review SSO, user, fee, and fine configuration changes after remediation.
Validation and detection
- Inventory all FOLIO deployments for org.folio:mod-data-export-spring usage.
- Compare installed versions against the affected ranges in the advisory.
- Confirm the patched package or vendor-fixed release is deployed.
- Review logs for unauthenticated access to sensitive mod-data-export APIs.
- Validate user data, SSO settings, fees, and fines for unauthorized changes.
Public sources used
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CWE-798: Credential and account abuse lookup
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.1 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N3.95.2CISA-ADPVulnerability scoring details
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9.1CriticalVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/folio-org/mod-data-export-spring/security/advisories/GHSA-vf78-3q9f-92g3CVE reference, VulnCheck · vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/folio-org/mod-data-export-spring/commit/93aff4566bff59e30f4121b5a2bda5b0b508a446CVE reference, VulnCheck · patch
- https://wiki.folio.org/x/hbMMBwCVE reference, VulnCheck · related
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vf78-3q9f-92g3CVE reference, VulnCheck · vendor-advisory
- https://vulncheck.com/advisories/vc-advisory-GHSA-vf78-3q9f-92g3CVE reference, VulnCheck · third-party-advisory
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Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Use of Hard-coded Credentials represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.