CVE-2024-34517 (GCVE-0-2024-34517)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-07 00:00
Modified
2025-07-23 03:55
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-471 - Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID)
Summary
The Cypher component in Neo4j 5.0.0 through 5.18 mishandles IMMUTABLE privileges in some situations where an attacker already has admin access.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Neo4j Neo4j Version: 5.0.0   < 5.19
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