Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-28990

Medium

Published: 12 September 2024

Published
12 September 2024
Modified
26 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0003 8.3th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-28990 is a medium-severity Use of Hard-coded Credentials (CWE-798) vulnerability in Solarwinds Access Rights Manager. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 8.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) was found to contain a hard-coded credential authentication bypass vulnerability. If exploited, this vulnerability would allow access to the RabbitMQ management console. We thank Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) for its ongoing partnership in…

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coordinating with SolarWinds on responsible disclosure of this and other potential vulnerabilities.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

solarwinds
access rights manager
≤ 2024.3.1

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.

addresses: CWE-798

Enables users to notice when hard-coded credentials have been exploited for unauthorized access.

addresses: CWE-798

Security training explicitly warns against hard-coded credentials, lowering their use in systems.

addresses: CWE-798

Policy and procedures prohibit hard-coded credentials in favor of managed authentication.

addresses: CWE-798

External identity providers eliminate the need for hard-coded credentials in applications.

addresses: CWE-798

Changing default authenticators prior to first use and protecting content prevents use of hard-coded credentials.

addresses: CWE-798

Central credential stores and rotation policies remove the need for hard-coded credentials in configuration files or code.

addresses: CWE-798

Intelligence programs surface reports of campaigns that abuse hard-coded credentials in products, prompting removal or replacement and thereby reducing successful exploitation.

addresses: CWE-798

Planned investment enables secure credential storage and management systems instead of hard-coded credentials.

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