CVE-2024-11482
RCE in Trellix Enterprise Security Manager 11.6.10
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2024-11482 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Trellix Enterprise Security Manager. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique NTDS (T1003.003); ranked in the top 15% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2024-11482 is a critical command-injection vulnerability in Trellix ESM version 11.6.10. It permits unauthenticated access to an internal Snowservice API, allowing remote attackers to inject and execute operating-system commands that run with root privileges. The flaw is tracked under CWE-78 and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8.
An unauthenticated network attacker can send specially crafted requests directly to the exposed API endpoint, bypassing all authentication controls and achieving arbitrary code execution as root. Successful exploitation grants full control over the affected ESM instance, including the ability to read, modify, or delete data and to pivot further into the environment.
Public references include a Trellix knowledge-base article and a HackerOne report that describe the issue and link to available patches or configuration guidance for affected deployments. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.0867 before receding to its current value of 0.0470; no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation has been reported.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-34063
Vulnerability Data
A vulnerability in ESM 11.6.10 allows unauthenticated access to the internal Snowservice API and enables remote code execution through command injection, executed as the root user.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect command sanitization during development.
Input validation directly neutralizes or rejects special characters that would otherwise alter OS command structure.
Least privilege reduces the permissions available to any process that could be subverted by injected commands.
Least functionality restricts available OS commands and interpreters, limiting the blast radius of injection.
Secure engineering principles require proper neutralization of untrusted input before command construction.
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.PS-06's SDLC practices directly require secure coding and input handling that blocks command-injection defects, yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors and verification gaps unaddressed.
Routine patching/maintenance can remediate known command-injection CVEs in dependencies (partial forward) but does nothing to stop developers from introducing improper neutralization in custom code (none reverse).
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.