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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-21545"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-09-24T07:25:12.184Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-24T14:57:45.924Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-21545"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-21545.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21545"
title: null
summary: "Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. Insufficient safeguards against malicious API response values allow authenticated attackers with 'Sys.Audit' or 'VM.Monitor' privileges to download arbitrary host files via the API.\nWhen handling the result from a request handler before returning it to the user, the handle_api2_request function will check for the ‘download’ or ‘data’-\u003e’download’ objects inside the request handler call response object. If present, handle_api2_request will read a local file defined by this object and return it to the user.\nTwo endpoints were identified which can control the object returned by a request handler sufficiently that the ’download’ object is defined and user controlled. This results in arbitrary file read.\nThe privileges of this file read can result in full compromise of the system by various impacts such as disclosing sensitive files allowing for privileged session forgery."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.4-19"},{"version":"8.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"8.2.7"}],"vendor":"Proxmox","product":"pve-manager"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.4-4"},{"version":"8.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"8.2.5"}],"vendor":"Proxmox","product":"libpve-storage-perl"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.2-1","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.3.0"},{"version":"5.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1.1"}],"vendor":"Proxmox","product":"libpve-http-server-perl"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.3-12"},{"version":"8.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"8.1.4"}],"vendor":"Proxmox","product":"pmg-api"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"8.2.3"}],"vendor":"Proxmox","product":"libpve-common-perl (Promox VE 8)"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"8.2.5"}],"vendor":"Proxmox","product":"libpve-common-perl (Promox Mail Gateway 8)"}]

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