CVE-2024-38175
Published: 20 August 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-38175 is a critical-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Managed Instance For Apache Cassandra. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 9.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
An improper access control vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38175 and assigned CWE-284, affects Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. The flaw permits an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a network, as reflected in its CVSS 3.1 score of 9.6 with attack vector network, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction, and changed scope that yields high impact to confidentiality and integrity.
An authenticated attacker with network access can exploit the weakness to gain elevated privileges within the managed Cassandra instance, potentially compromising sensitive data and altering configurations or workloads hosted in the affected Azure service.
Microsoft's advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38175 addresses the issue, though specific patch or configuration guidance is not detailed in the provided references. The associated EPSS score remains flat at 0.0612 with no material increase observed since disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-37145
Vulnerability details
An improper access control vulnerability in the Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
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.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.
Requiring prior authorization for each remote access type prevents improper access control over remote connections.
Requiring authorization of wireless access before allowing connections enforces proper access control for this access method.