CVE-2024-44722

CriticalRCE

Published: 20 March 2026

Published

20 March 2026

Modified

14 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0009 25.8th percentile

Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-44722 is a critical-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Anolis Sysak. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 25.8th 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-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Directly mitigates CVE-2024-44722 by identifying, reporting, and correcting the command injection flaw through timely patching as available in the SysAK repository.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Prevents arbitrary command execution by implementing input validation mechanisms at entry points to reject malicious payloads like 'aaa;cat /etc/passwd'.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

prevent

Reduces the impact of successful exploitation by enforcing least privilege on the SysAK tool, limiting privileges available for injected commands.

NVD Description

SysAK v2.0 and before is vulnerable to command execution via aaa;cat /etc/passwd.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2024-44722 is a critical command injection vulnerability (CWE-94) affecting SysAK versions v2.0 and earlier, with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The flaw enables arbitrary command execution through malicious input, such as "aaa;cat /etc/passwd", in this open-source system analysis and kernel troubleshooting tool developed by Anolis OS.

An unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit the vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation grants high-impact privileges, allowing full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on affected systems, such as reading sensitive files or executing arbitrary code remotely.

Advisories and additional details are available at https://gist.github.com/0x00dream2/9984c109101c0b1e352f8ee9ad5e40fe#file-cve-2024-44722, while the SysAK project repository at https://gitee.com/anolis/sysak provides information on patches and updates for mitigation.