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CVE-2024-42360

critical

SequenceServer lets you rapidly set up a BLAST+ server with an intuitive user interface for personal or group use.

Vendor / product: Wurmlab — sequenceserver

SequenceServer lets you rapidly set up a BLAST+ server with an intuitive user interface for personal or group use. Several HTTP endpoints did not properly sanitize user input and/or query parameters. This could be exploited to inject and run unwanted shell commands. This vulnerability has been fixed in 3.1.2.

CVSS
9.8
9.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2024-08-14 20:15
Modified: 2026-10-29 14:17
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 11 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-29 14:37 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

wurmlab / sequenceserver <3.1.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/wurmlab/sequenceserver/security/advisories/GHSA-qv32-5wm2-p32h
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/wurmlab/sequenceserver/commit/457e52709f7f9ed2fceed59b3db564cb50785dba

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-29 14:37 UTC · record ↗

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