CVE-2024-5579: Allegra renderFieldMatch Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.
CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.
CVEs like this one computed, by meaning
What to do now held facts and links
- Upgrade to allegra 7.5.2 or later upper bounds of the CVE record's affected ranges
- Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
- Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.
What it is stated by the CNA
Allegra renderFieldMatch Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Allegra. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the renderFieldMatch method. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in deserialization of untrusted data. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of LOCAL SERVICE. Was ZDI-CAN-23451.
- weakness
- CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
- affected
- Allegra
- published ranges
- alltena allegra < 7.5.2
- first unaffected version, by branch
- allegra 7.5.2
- severity
- 7.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- assigned by
- zdi
- published
- 2024-11-22
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Exploit code held, dated
- exploit code
- None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.
What moved held, dated
| date | EPSS | event |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Nov 2024 | 0.00046 | |
| 17 Mar 2025 | 0.02816 | scoring model v2025.03.14 |
| 19 Mar 2025 | 0.02907 | |
| 24 Mar 2025 | 0.03577 | |
| 1 Oct 2025 | 0.10976 | crossed 0.10 |
| 31 Dec 2025 | 0.08416 | crossed 0.10 |
| 13 Apr 2026 | 0.11007 | crossed 0.10 |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0.01508 | crossed 0.10 · scoring model v2026.06.15 |
| 29 Aug 2026 | 0.01552 |
21 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.
Outside the record researched, cited
This section reads the record's references and adds cited findings from outside it. It needs an account. Everything above is held facts and is complete without it.
What would change this brief held, dated
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
- exploit probability
- 0.02 on 2026-08-29 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
- fix
- Held: allegra 7.5.2. A newer fix from the CNA or OSV changes this brief.
How to check this
Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:
SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2024-5579', '2026-10-31T23:59:59.999999Z', now());