# CVE-2024-42362: GHSL-2023-255: HertzBeat Authenticated (user role) RCE via unsafe deserialization in /api/monitors/import

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.0
- Published: 2024-08-20 · Updated: 2024-08-21

## Affected

- Apache HertzBeat: fixed in 1.6.0

## Description

Hertzbeat is an open source, real-time monitoring system. Hertzbeat has an authenticated (user role) RCE via unsafe deserialization in /api/monitors/import. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Apache HertzBeat, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-254_GHSL-2023-256_HertzBeat/
- https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat/pull/1611
- https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat/pull/1620
- https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat/pull/1620/files#diff-9c5fb3d1b7e3b0f54bc5c4182965c4fe1f9023d449017cece3005d3f90e8e4d8
- https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat/commit/79f5408e345e8e89da97be05f43e3204a950ddfb
- https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat/commit/9dbbfb7812fc4440ba72bdee66799edd519d06bb

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