Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-41779

Race Condition in Ibm Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody 7.0.2 … 7.0.3

Race Condition
Published
22 November 2024
Modified
15 August 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0084 55th percentile
Risk Priority 73 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-41779 is a critical-severity Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (CWE-367) vulnerability in Ibm Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Path Interception (T1034); ranked in the top 45% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-25 (Reference Monitor) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - Model Manager 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to remotely execute…

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CWE(s)
CWE-367

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1034 Path Interception Persistence
**This technique has been deprecated.
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T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may circumvent mechanisms designed to control privilege elevation to gain higher-level permissions.
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T1574 Hijack Execution Flow Stealth
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the way operating systems run programs.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2025-33077Same product: Ibm Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
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CVE-2025-33020Same product: Ibm Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
CVE-2026-16935Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2026-16896Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2026-16927Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2025-33076Same product: Ibm Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
CVE-2025-64645Same vendor: Ibm

Affected Assets

ibm
engineering systems design rhapsody
7.0.2, 7.0.3

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V15.4.2
  • V17.2.6

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-25 Reference Monitor good match

A reference monitor that is always invoked and analyzable structurally eliminates the non-atomic check-then-use pattern underlying TOCTOU.

AC-3 Access Enforcement partial match

Access enforcement that performs an atomic check-and-use decision directly stops the window in which a TOCTOU race can be exploited.

SC-39 Process Isolation partial match

Process isolation limits the blast radius of a successful TOCTOU exploitation but does not remove the race itself.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly include coding standards and reviews that prevent TOCTOU race conditions.

References