CVE-2024-26566
Published: 07 March 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-26566 is a high-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability in Iscute Cute Http File Server. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 49.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-23831
Vulnerability details
An issue in Cute Http File Server v.3.1 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the password verification component.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CVE-2024-26566 enables remote privilege escalation via flawed password verification in a public-facing HTTP file server, facilitating T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application) for initial access and T1068 (Exploitation for Privilege Escalation).
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.
Authorizing remote access reduces the ability to bypass authentication via unauthorized alternate remote channels.
Users can identify logons via alternate paths or channels by reviewing the previous logon time.
Adaptive requirements can apply across access paths, reducing the ability to bypass authentication via alternate channels or paths.
Centralized IdPs close alternate authentication paths that enable bypass.
Enforces authentication for non-organizational users, making it harder to bypass via alternate paths or channels.
Requires authentication to occur exclusively over the isolated trusted path, directly preventing bypass via alternate or untrusted channels.