CVE-2024-40669
Published: 28 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-40669 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Google Android. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 9.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-16 (Memory Protection) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-40669 is a use-after-free vulnerability stemming from a race condition in TBD of TBD. It affects Android systems, as documented in the October 2024 Android security bulletin.
A local attacker with no privileges required can exploit this vulnerability without user interaction to achieve local escalation of privilege. The attack has low complexity and results in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, reflected in its CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The root cause is mapped to CWE-416 (Use After Free).
The Android security bulletin at https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2024-10-01 details available patches and mitigation recommendations for affected devices.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-38797
Vulnerability details
In TBD of TBD, there is a possible use after free due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Direct local privilege escalation via memory corruption exploit (use-after-free) with no auth or interaction required.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Requires timely identification and patching of the use-after-free vulnerability as detailed in the Android security bulletin, directly eliminating the root cause.
Implements memory safeguards such as address space layout randomization and exploit mitigations that directly counter use-after-free exploitation attempts.
Enforces process isolation to limit the scope of local privilege escalation from an exploited unprivileged process.