# CVE-2024-5082: Nexus Repository - RCE

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-5082 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-5082

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 7.1
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Sonatype Nexus Repository
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'))

## Description

A Remote Code Execution vulnerability has been discovered in Sonatype Nexus Repository 2. 

This issue affects Nexus Repository 2 OSS/Pro versions up to and including 2.15.1.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-5082](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5082) is a remote code execution vulnerability in Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 that can allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable instances through crafted requests.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 5th of March 2025.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2024-5082 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Observed exploitation attempts target URLs containing `/nexus/service/local/repositories/releases/content/com/sbt/ignite/ignite-bom/maven-metadata.xml` and related Nexus metadata paths.

## Timeline

- 2024-11-14: CVE Published. CVE-2024-5082 is published to NVD.
- 2025-03-05: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-5082 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-03-06: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-5082 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-5082.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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