Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-11716
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 8 Nov 2026, 02:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"references": [
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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",
"https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd",
"https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Dec/21"
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