CVE-2024-12108
Published: 31 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-12108 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass by Spoofing (CWE-290) vulnerability in Progress Whatsup Gold. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 4.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability CVE-2024-12108 affects WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2024.0.2. It enables an attacker to gain access to the WhatsUp Gold server via the public API and is associated with CWE-290. The issue received a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.6 reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, low required privileges, and changed scope with high confidentiality and integrity impact.
An attacker positioned on the network and holding only low privileges can exploit the flaw without user interaction to obtain unauthorized access to the server and perform high-impact actions on confidentiality and integrity.
The vendor Progress Software lists related network monitoring resources at https://www.progress.com/network-monitoring. The EPSS score has remained flat at a peak of 0.2175 with no material rise after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50602
Vulnerability details
In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2024.0.2, an attacker can gain access to the WhatsUp Gold server via the public API.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
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.
Reveals spoofed logon attempts through unexpected previous logon timestamps upon legitimate login.
Training specifically addresses recognizing spoofed communications and phishing that enable authentication bypass.
Requiring verifiable identity evidence at appropriate assurance levels makes it substantially harder for attackers to successfully spoof or impersonate users to obtain accounts.
Unique device authentication makes successful spoofing of device identity substantially more difficult to achieve.
Unique identification of non-organizational users reduces the feasibility of authentication bypass by spoofing.
Unique identification and authentication of services before communications makes spoofing of service identities substantially harder.
Isolated trusted path ensures the user interacts only with genuine system components, preventing spoofing of authentication interfaces or prompts.
Directly counters DNS response spoofing by requiring cryptographic origin authentication artifacts from the authoritative source.