IBM Verify Access 10.0.0-10.0.3 Privilege Escalation via Unnecessary Privileges
CVE-2024-49814 Published on February 6, 2025

IBM Security Verify Access Appliance Privilege Escalation
IBM Security Verify Access Appliance 10.0.0 through 10.0.3 could allow a locally authenticated user to increase their privileges due to execution with unnecessary privileges.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2024-49814 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.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
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-2024-49814

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Affected Versions

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.01%
Percentile
1.19%

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.