IBM Security Verify Access Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2024-49804 Published on November 29, 2024
IBM Security Verify Access Appliance privilege escalation
IBM Security Verify Access Appliance 10.0.0 through 10.0.8
could allow a locally authenticated non-administrative user to escalate their privileges due to unnecessary permissions used to perform certain tasks.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-49804 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
The software performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-49804
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Affected Versions
IBM Security Verify Access:- Version 10.0.0, <= 10.0.8 is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.