CVE-2024-1011
Published: 29 January 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-1011 is a medium-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Employee Management System Project Employee Management System. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 38.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-16788
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in SourceCodester Employee Management System 1.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file delete-leave.php of the component Leave Handler. The manipulation of the argument id leads to improper access controls. The attack…
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can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-252280.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The broken access control (CWE-284) in delete-leave.php allows authenticated low-privileged users (e.g., employees) to perform admin-only actions like deleting or approving leave requests by manipulating the 'id' parameter and accessing admin endpoints directly, enabling exploitation of a public-facing web application (T1190) for privilege escalation (T1068).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.
Requiring prior authorization for each remote access type prevents improper access control over remote connections.
Requiring authorization of wireless access before allowing connections enforces proper access control for this access method.