Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38508

HighRCE

Published: 26 July 2024

Published
26 July 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0050 66.6th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38508 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Lenovo (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 33.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in the web interface or SSH captive command shell interface of XCC that could allow an authenticated XCC user with elevated privileges to perform command injection via a specially crafted request.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Lenovo
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

References