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CVE-2024-4577 Exploits in the Wild One Day After Disclosure
- The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) has been monitoring activity surrounding CVE-2024-4577, a PHP vulnerability that affects installations running CGI mode that was disclosed in June 2024. The vulnerability primarily affects Windows installations using Chinese and Japanese language locales, but it is possible that the vulnerability applies to a wider range of installations. As early as one day after disclosure, the SIRT observed numerous exploit attempts to abuse this vulnerability, indicating high exploitability and quick adoption by threat actors. The exploitations include command injection and multiple malware campaigns: Gh0st RAT, RedTail cryptominers, and XMRig. Akamai App & API Protector has been automatically mitigating exploits that target our customers. In this blog post, we’ve included a comprehensive list of indicators of compromise (IOCs) for the various exploits we discuss.