CVE-2024-6834: Linuxfoundation Zowe API Mediation Layer

Critical severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in APIML Spring Cloud Gateway which leverages user privileges by unexpected signing proxied request by Zowe's client certificate. This allows access to a user to the endpoints requiring an internal client certificate without any credentials. It could lead to managing components in there and allow an attacker to handle the whole communication including user credentials.

Affected products

• Linuxfoundation Zowe API Mediation Layer: from 2.4.0, before 2.14.0 (fixed in 2.14.0)
• Open Mainframe Project Zowe: from 2.4.0, before 2.14.0 (fixed in 2.14.0)

Published 2024-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.