# CVE-2024-8642: Eclipse EDC: Consumer pull transfer token validation checks not applied

- Also known as: GHSA-8259-2X72-2GVC
- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/RE:L/U:Green
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.9.0
- Published: 2024-09-11 · Updated: 2024-09-11

## Affected

- org.eclipse.edc:transfer-data-plane: from 0.5.0, fixed in 0.9.0
- org.eclipse.edc:transfer-data-plane (Maven): from 0.5.0, fixed in 0.9.0

## Description

In Eclipse Dataspace Components, from version 0.5.0 and before version 0.9.0, the ConsumerPullTransferTokenValidationApiController does not check for token validity (expiry, not-before, issuance date), which can allow an attacker to bypass the check for token expiration. The issue requires to have a dataplane configured to support http proxy consumer pull AND include the module "transfer-data-plane". The affected code was marked deprecated from the version 0.6.0 in favour of Dataplane Signaling. In 0.9.0 the vulnerable code has been removed.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on org.eclipse.edc:transfer-data-plane, upgrade to a fixed version (0.9.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/234
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/28
- https://github.com/eclipse-edc/Connector/commit/04899e91dcdb4a407db4eb7af3e7b6ff9a9e9ad6
- https://github.com/eclipse-edc/Connector/releases/tag/v0.9.0

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