Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-4739

Medium

Published: 18 October 2024

Published
18 October 2024
Modified
22 October 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0050 66.3th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-4739 is a medium-severity Exposed Dangerous Method or Function (CWE-749) vulnerability in Moxa Mxsecurity. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 33.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The lack of access restriction to a resource from unauthorized users makes MXsecurity software versions v1.1.0 and prior vulnerable. By acquiring a valid authenticator, an attacker can pose as an authorized user and successfully access the resource.

CWE(s)
CWE-749NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

moxa
mxsecurity
≤ 1.1.0

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.

CM-7 Least Functionality
addresses: CWE-749

Explicitly prohibiting dangerous or unnecessary functions and services prevents exposure of methods that could be directly exploited.

SC-25 Thin Nodes
addresses: CWE-749

Minimal functionality removes or avoids exposure of dangerous methods and functions.

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