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                "text": "The Netherlands Cyber Security Center (henceforth: NCSC-NL) maintains this portal to enhance access to its information and vulnerabilities. The use of this information is subject to the following terms and conditions:\n\nThe vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal are gathered by NCSC-NL from a variety of open sources, which the user can retrieve from other platforms. NCSC-NL makes every reasonable effort to ensure that the content of this portal is kept up to date, and that it is accurate and complete. Nevertheless, NCSC-NL cannot entirely rule out the possibility of errors, and therefore cannot give any warranty in respect of its completeness, accuracy or real-time keeping up-to-date. NCSC-NL does not control nor guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information obtained from these external sources. The vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal are intended solely for the convenience of professional parties to take appropriate measures to manage the risks posed to the cybersecurity. No rights can be derived from the information provided therein.\n\nNCSC-NL and the Kingdom of the Netherlands assume no legal liability or responsibility for any damage resulting from either the use or inability of use of the vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal. This includes damage resulting from the inaccuracy of incompleteness of the information contained in it.\nThe information on this page is subject to Dutch law. All disputes related to or arising from the use of this portal regarding the disclosure of vulnerabilities will be submitted to the competent court in The Hague. This choice of means also applies to the court in summary proceedings."
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        "title": "CVE-2026-24516",
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                    "date": "2026-03-24T03:12:01.708611Z",
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                    "summary": "CVE created.| Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| References created (4)."
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                    "date": "2026-03-24T03:12:10.183549Z",
                    "number": "2",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score created."
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                    "number": "3",
                    "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| References created (4)."
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                    "date": "2026-03-24T20:49:53.673681Z",
                    "number": "4",
                    "summary": "CVSS created.| CWES updated (1)."
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                    "date": "2026-03-24T20:49:56.519786Z",
                    "number": "5",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score updated."
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                    "date": "2026-03-24T20:50:10.893753Z",
                    "number": "6",
                    "summary": "CVSS created.| CWES updated (1).| Unknown change."
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                    "date": "2026-03-24T20:50:14.410970Z",
                    "number": "7",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score updated."
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                    "date": "2026-03-24T21:55:43.619397Z",
                    "number": "8",
                    "summary": "Source connected.| CVE status created. (valid)| EPSS created."
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                    "date": "2026-03-24T21:55:52.365550Z",
                    "number": "9",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score updated."
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                    "date": "2026-03-25T23:17:27.112794Z",
                    "number": "10",
                    "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| CVSS created.| References created (6).| CWES updated (1)."
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                    "date": "2026-03-26T00:12:43.651933Z",
                    "number": "11",
                    "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| CVSS created.| Products created (1).| References created (5).| CWES updated (1)."
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                    "date": "2026-03-26T00:12:55.773470Z",
                    "number": "12",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score updated."
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                    "date": "2026-03-27T00:13:42.328021Z",
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                    "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| References created (6)."
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                    "category": "description",
                    "text": "A command injection vulnerability exists in DigitalOcean Droplet Agent through 1.3.2. The troubleshooting actioner component (internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go) processes metadata from the metadata service endpoint and executes commands specified in the TroubleshootingAgent.Requesting array without adequate input validation. While the code validates that artifacts exist in the validInvestigationArtifacts map, it fails to sanitize the actual command content after the \"command:\" prefix. This allows an attacker who can control metadata responses to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. The attack is triggered by sending a TCP packet with specific sequence numbers to the SSH port, which causes the agent to fetch metadata from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1.json. The vulnerability affects the command execution flow in internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go (insufficient validation), internal/troubleshooting/command/exec.go (direct exec.CommandContext call), and internal/troubleshooting/command/command.go (command parsing without sanitization). This can lead to complete system compromise, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and potential lateral movement across cloud infrastructure.",
                    "title": "cveprojectv5 - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/24xxx/CVE-2026-24516.json"
                },
                {
                    "category": "description",
                    "text": "A command injection vulnerability exists in DigitalOcean Droplet Agent through 1.3.2. The troubleshooting actioner component (internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go) processes metadata from the metadata service endpoint and executes commands specified in the TroubleshootingAgent.Requesting array without adequate input validation. While the code validates that artifacts exist in the validInvestigationArtifacts map, it fails to sanitize the actual command content after the \"command:\" prefix. This allows an attacker who can control metadata responses to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. The attack is triggered by sending a TCP packet with specific sequence numbers to the SSH port, which causes the agent to fetch metadata from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1.json. The vulnerability affects the command execution flow in internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go (insufficient validation), internal/troubleshooting/command/exec.go (direct exec.CommandContext call), and internal/troubleshooting/command/command.go (command parsing without sanitization). This can lead to complete system compromise, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and potential lateral movement across cloud infrastructure.",
                    "title": "nvd - https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2026-24516"
                },
                {
                    "category": "description",
                    "text": "A command injection vulnerability exists in DigitalOcean Droplet Agent through 1.3.2. The troubleshooting actioner component (internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go) processes metadata from the metadata service endpoint and executes commands specified in the TroubleshootingAgent.Requesting array without adequate input validation. While the code validates that artifacts exist in the validInvestigationArtifacts map, it fails to sanitize the actual command content after the \"command:\" prefix. This allows an attacker who can control metadata responses to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. The attack is triggered by sending a TCP packet with specific sequence numbers to the SSH port, which causes the agent to fetch metadata from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1.json. \n\nThe vulnerability affects the command execution flow in internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go (insufficient validation), internal/troubleshooting/command/exec.go (direct exec.CommandContext call), and internal/troubleshooting/command/command.go (command parsing without sanitization). This can lead to complete system compromise, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and potential lateral movement across cloud infrastructure.",
                    "title": "github - https://api.github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6"
                },
                {
                    "category": "description",
                    "text": "A command injection vulnerability exists in DigitalOcean Droplet Agent through 1.3.2. The troubleshooting actioner component (internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go) processes metadata from the metadata service endpoint and executes commands specified in the TroubleshootingAgent.Requesting array without adequate input validation. While the code validates that artifacts exist in the validInvestigationArtifacts map, it fails to sanitize the actual command content after the \"command:\" prefix. This allows an attacker who can control metadata responses to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. The attack is triggered by sending a TCP packet with specific sequence numbers to the SSH port, which causes the agent to fetch metadata from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1.json. \n\nThe vulnerability affects the command execution flow in internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go (insufficient validation), internal/troubleshooting/command/exec.go (direct exec.CommandContext call), and internal/troubleshooting/command/command.go (command parsing without sanitization). This can lead to complete system compromise, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and potential lateral movement across cloud infrastructure.",
                    "title": "osv - https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/osv-vulnerabilities/o/Go%2FGHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6.json?alt=media"
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                    "text": "DigitalOcean Droplet Agent: Command Injection via Metadata Service Endpoint in github.com/digitalocean/droplet-agent",
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                    "title": "NCSC Score top increasing factors"
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                {
                    "category": "other",
                    "text": "There is cwe data available from source Nvd",
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                    "category": "external",
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