CVE-2024-36072
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2024-36072 is a critical-severity Logging of Excessive Data (CWE-779) vulnerability in Netwrix CoSoSys Endpoint (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 40% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AU-2 (Event Logging) and AU-7 (Audit Record Reduction and Report Generation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
Netwrix CoSoSys Endpoint Protector through version 5.9.3 and CoSoSys Unify through version 7.0.6 contain a remote code execution vulnerability in the logging component of the Endpoint Protector and Unify server application. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-36072 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8, is categorized under CWE-779 and permits unauthenticated remote attackers to submit crafted requests that result in arbitrary system command execution.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a malicious request directly to the affected server application and obtain root-level command execution on the underlying host. No authentication, user interaction, or special network positioning is required for successful exploitation.
Reference advisories from Netwrix are published at https://helpcenter.netwrix.com/bundle/z-kb-articles-salesforce/page/kA0Qk0000001E5lKAE.html. The associated EPSS score has remained low, with a current value of 0.0593 and a peak of 0.0608.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-35871
Vulnerability Data
Netwrix CoSoSys Endpoint Protector through 5.9.3 and CoSoSys Unify through 7.0.6 contain a remote code execution vulnerability in the logging component of the Endpoint Protector and Unify server application which allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to send a malicious request,…
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resulting in the ability to execute system commands with root privileges.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Defining the exact event types to be logged prevents indiscriminate collection of excessive data.
Audit-record reduction and on-demand reporting directly reduce the impact of overly verbose logs during review.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Excessive logging hinders log processing and forensic analysis, largely undermining DE.AE-04's ability to estimate impact/scope via SIEMs or tools while removing most of that outcome's efficacy.
Excessive logging undermines event analysis by flooding logs with noise that hinders processing and forensic review, but does not blind or defeat the outcome the way insufficient logging would.
Excessive logging impairs processing of provided event data and log-analysis findings (one aspect of DE.AE-06) without fully defeating alert/ticket distribution.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
A.8.15 directly requires logging to be configured so that only necessary events are recorded, preventing excessive data.
Documented operating procedures can include logging guidelines, indirectly reducing excessive logging.
Monitoring activities can detect excessive logging but do not prescribe how much data should be logged.