Security Resilience

CVE-2024-0874

Published
25 April 2024
Modified
13 October 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0076 54th percentile
Risk Priority 46 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-0874 is a medium-severity Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information (CWE-524) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data Obfuscation (T1001); ranked in the top 46% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SC-4 (Information in Shared System Resources) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A flaw was found in coredns. This issue could lead to invalid cache entries returning due to incorrectly implemented caching.

CWE(s)
CWE-524

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1001 Data Obfuscation Command And Control
Adversaries may obfuscate command and control traffic to make it more difficult to detect.
attack.mitre.org →
T1001.003 Protocol or Service Impersonation Command And Control
Adversaries may impersonate legitimate protocols or web service traffic to disguise command and control activity and thwart analysis efforts.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.002 Security Account Manager Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to extract credential material from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database either through in-memory techniques or through the Windows Registry where the SAM database is stored.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.003 NTDS Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access or create a copy of the Active Directory domain database in order to steal credential information, as well as obtain other information about domain members such as devices, users, and access rights.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.006 DCSync Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access credentials and other sensitive information by abusing a Windows Domain Controller's application programming interface (API)(Citation: Microsoft DRSR Dec 2017) (Citation: Microsoft GetNCCChanges) (Citati…
attack.mitre.org →
T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V14.3.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

Enforces access authorizations so that cached sensitive data cannot be read by actors outside the intended sphere.

SC-4 Information in Shared System Resources good match

Directly prevents unauthorized transfer of information through shared resources such as caches.

AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement partial match

Controls information flows to keep sensitive data from leaving its authorized control sphere via caches.

SC-28 Protection of Information at Rest partial match

Requires cryptographic or other protection of sensitive information at rest, which covers cached data.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 partial match
blocks

Enforcing least-privilege access permissions directly limits who can read cached sensitive data.

PR.DS-01 partial match
blocks

Protecting confidentiality of data-at-rest covers caches that persist sensitive information.

PR.DS-10 partial match
blocks

Protecting data-in-use can mitigate exposure when caches hold transient sensitive values.

PR.IR-01 partial match
blocks

Logical access controls on environments reduce the chance an outsider can reach the cache.

PR.PS-01 partial match
blocks

Hardened configuration baselines can disable or secure caching of sensitive data.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.10 Information deletion partial match
degrades

Information deletion ensures sensitive data is removed from caches when no longer needed.

A.8.12 Data leakage prevention partial match
blocks

Data leakage prevention can block unauthorized access to cached sensitive information.

A.8.19 Installation of software on operational systems partial match
removes
A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
removes

A.8.26 only requires that security requirements (including those that could address caching of sensitive data) be identified and specified during development or acquisition; it does not itself mandate, design, or implement any change that would make the cache flaw stop being present in the resulting application.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
removes

A.8.27 mandates establishing and applying secure engineering principles (including secure-by-design, least privilege, hardening, and data sanitization) during architecture and development; it does not itself remove an already-written cache that stores sensitive information outside the intended control sphere.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding practices prevent caching of sensitive data outside intended boundaries.

References