# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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-2024-21697"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-11-19T19:00:00.635Z"
updatedAt: "2024-11-25T14:04:49.167Z"
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-2024-21697"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-21697.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21697"
title: null
summary: "This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in versions 4.2.8 of Sourcetree for Mac and 3.4.19 for Sourcetree for Windows.\r\n\r\nThis RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.8, allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires user interaction.\r\n\r\nAtlassian recommends that Sourcetree for Mac and Sourcetree for Windows customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:\r\n Sourcetree for Mac 4.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 4.2.9\r\n Sourcetree for Windows 3.4: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 3.4.20\r\n\r\nSee the release notes ([https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/download-archives]). You can download the latest version of Sourcetree for Mac and Sourcetree for Windows from the download center ([https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/download-archives]).\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability was reported via our Penetration Testing program."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"All versions from 4.2.8 to 4.2.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"All versions from 4.2.9","status":"unaffected"}],"vendor":"Atlassian","product":"Sourcetree for Mac"},{"versions":[{"version":"All versions from 3.4.19 to 3.4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"All versions from 3.4.20","status":"unaffected"}],"vendor":"Atlassian","product":"Sourcetree for Windows"}]

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