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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2024-11716

While assignment of a user to a team (bracket) in CTFd should be possible only once, at the registration, a flaw in logic implementation allows an authenticated user to reset it's bracket and then pick a new one, joining another team while a competition is already ongoing. This issue impacts releases from 3.7.0 up to 3.7.4 and was addressed by pull request 2636 https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/pull/2636 included in 3.7.5 release.

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8 Nov 2026, 02:09 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2024-11716

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Jan 2025, 16:07 UTC

While assignment of a user to a team (bracket) in CTFd should be possible only once, at the registration, a flaw in logic implementation allows an authenticated user to reset it's bracket and then pick a new one, joining another team while a competition is already ongoing. This issue impacts releases from 3.7.0 up to 3.7.4 and was addressed by pull request 2636 https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/pull/2636 included in 3.7.5 release.

osv:CVE-2024-11716
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11716",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2024-11716",
    "summary": "While assignment of a user to a team (bracket) in CTFd should be possible only once, at the registration, a flaw in logic implementation allows an authenticated user to reset it's bracket and then pick a new one, joining another team while a competition is already ongoing. This issue impacts releases from 3.7.0 up to 3.7.4 and was addressed by pull request 2636 https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/pull/2636 included in 3.7.5 release.",
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    "products": [],
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:52.763288454Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://blog.ctfd.io/ctfd-3-7-5/",
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/11xxx/CVE-2024-11716.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11716",
        "https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/pull/2636",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 521650,
  "published_at": "2025-01-02T16:07:46.868+00:00"
}