CVE-2024-40442
Published: 23 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-40442 is a high-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 33.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other Platforms; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain; MITRE ATLAS techniques in scope: AI Supply Chain Compromise (AML.T0010), Exfiltration via AI Inference API (AML.T0024), External Harms (AML.T0048).
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-38458
Vulnerability details
An issue in Doccano Open source annotation tools for machine learning practitioners v.1.8.4 and Doccano Auto Labeling Pipeline module to annotate a document automatically v.0.1.23 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted REST Request.
- CWE(s)
AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Other Platforms
- Risk Domain
- Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- Doccano is an open-source annotation platform specifically designed for machine learning practitioners to label data for training ML models, fitting as an 'Other Platforms' tool in the AI ecosystem.
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted REST request in a web-based application, directly facilitating Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068).
MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI
MITRE ATLAS techniques
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.
Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.
Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.
Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.
Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.