Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-3420

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 07 April 2024

Published
07 April 2024
Modified
17 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0005 16.9th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-3420 is a medium-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Argie Online Courseware. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 16.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Online Courseware 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file admin/saveedit.php. The manipulation of the argument id leads to sql injection. The attack may be launched…

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remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-259592.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1505 Server Software Component Persistence
Adversaries may abuse legitimate extensible development features of servers to establish persistent access to systems.
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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing web app (admin/saveedit.php) enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190) and abuse of server software component (T1505) for unauthorized DB access, manipulation, and potential code execution.

Affected Assets

argie
online courseware
1.0

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-89

Penetration testing uses SQL injection payloads against database interfaces, identifying and supporting fixes for SQL injection weaknesses.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-89

Validates query inputs to prevent SQL syntax or command manipulation.

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