CVE-2024-38225
Published: 10 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-38225 is a high-severity Improper Authentication (CWE-287) vulnerability in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 9.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central contains an elevation of privilege vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-38225. The flaw is associated with CWE-287 and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8, reflecting network attack vector, low attack complexity, low privileges required, and no user interaction, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
An authenticated attacker with low privileges can exploit the issue remotely to elevate privileges within the affected Business Central instance and obtain full control over confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system.
The Microsoft Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38225 provides official guidance and patches. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.0768 with a current value of 0.0612, indicating limited but non-zero exploitation interest following disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-37191
Vulnerability details
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- 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.
Detects unauthorized successful logons resulting from improper authentication implementations.
Documented procedures ensure personnel are trained on authentication mechanisms, tangibly lowering the risk of improper authentication being exploited.
Security awareness training instructs users on secure authentication practices and avoiding credential compromise.
Training on authentication mechanisms and best practices decreases the occurrence of improper authentication.
Non-repudiation requires strong authentication mechanisms to irrefutably attribute performed actions to specific individuals or processes.
Session content review can reveal authentication bypasses or failures in session establishment.
Review of authentication-related audit records can detect improper authentication mechanisms or bypasses.
Assessments check authentication mechanisms for correct implementation and effectiveness, reducing successful authentication bypass attempts.