Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38878

Medium

Published: 02 August 2024

Published
02 August 2024
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.1277 94.2th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38878 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Siemens Omnivise T3000 Application Server. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 5.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The vulnerability CVE-2024-38878 is a path traversal flaw (CWE-22) in the diagnostics data export API endpoint of Omnivise T3000 Application Server R9.2 (all versions), Omnivise T3000 R8.2 SP3 (all versions), and Omnivise T3000 R8.2 SP4 (all versions). The affected component permits authenticated users to trigger file downloads that can traverse outside intended directories due to insufficient path validation.

An attacker with high privileges can exploit the endpoint over the network to download arbitrary files from the underlying file system, resulting in disclosure of sensitive data while leaving integrity and availability unaffected.

Siemens has published an advisory addressing the issue at https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-857368.html, with additional disclosure available at http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/5. The EPSS score has remained flat at its peak value of 0.1277 with no material increase observed after publication.

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Vulnerability details

A vulnerability has been identified in Omnivise T3000 Application Server R9.2 (All versions), Omnivise T3000 R8.2 SP3 (All versions), Omnivise T3000 R8.2 SP4 (All versions). Affected devices allow authenticated users to export diagnostics data. The corresponding API endpoint is susceptible…

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to path traversal and could allow an authenticated attacker to download arbitrary files from the file system.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

siemens
omnivise t3000 application server
r9.2

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.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

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