CVE-2024-31525
Published: 05 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-31525 is a high-severity Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306) vulnerability in Mitre (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 21.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-2 (Account Management).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-31525 is an incorrect access control vulnerability (CWE-306) in Peppermint Ticket Management version 0.4.6. The issue arises because the authorization mechanism is validated only on the client side and not on the server side, allowing unauthorized privilege escalation. Published on 2025-03-05, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H), indicating high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts.
A regular registered user can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By bypassing client-side checks, the attacker elevates their privileges to administrator level, achieving complete access to the system. This enables actions such as creating a new admin user, which provides persistent administrative access for the attacker.
References point to the CWE-285 definition (related to improper authorization) and GitHub issue #258 in the Peppermint-Lab/peppermint repository, which documents the vulnerability. No specific mitigation or patch details are outlined in the provided references.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-29404
Vulnerability details
Peppermint Ticket Management 0.4.6 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control. A regular registered user is able to elevate his privileges to admin and gain complete access to the system as the authorization mechanism is not validated on the server side…
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and only on the client side. This can result, for example, in creating a new admin user in the system which enables persistent access for the attacker as an administrator.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Vulnerability enables privilege escalation from regular user to admin via client-side auth bypass (T1068); admin access directly facilitates creating new admin account for persistence (T1136).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
AC-3 mandates server-side enforcement of approved authorizations for access to system resources, directly preventing client-side bypasses that enable privilege escalation to admin.
AC-6 enforces least privilege for users and processes, limiting the scope and impact of unauthorized privilege escalations even if initial checks are bypassed.
AC-2 requires secure management of system accounts including roles and privileges, mitigating unauthorized admin account creation resulting from the access control flaw.