Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-47945

Rittal Iot Interface Firmware ≤ 6.21.00.2

Public PoC
Published
15 October 2024
Modified
03 November 2025
Patch / advisory
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 0.0087 56th percentile
Risk Priority 73 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-47945 is a critical-severity Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers (CWE-340) vulnerability in Rittal Iot Interface Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Brute Force (T1110); ranked in the top 44% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SC-12 (Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

The devices are vulnerable to session hijacking due to insufficient entropy in its session ID generation algorithm. The session IDs are predictable, with only 32,768 possible values per user, which allows attackers to pre-generate valid session IDs, leading to unauthorized…

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access to user sessions. This is not only due to the use of an (insecure) rand() function call but also because of missing initialization via srand(). As a result only the PIDs are effectively used as seed.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1110 Brute Force Credential Access
Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.
T1110.001 Password Guessing Credential Access
Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts.
T1110.002 Password Cracking Credential Access
Adversaries may use password cracking to attempt to recover usable credentials, such as plaintext passwords, when credential material such as password hashes are obtained.
T1606.001 Web Cookies Credential Access
Adversaries may forge web cookies that can be used to gain access to web applications or Internet services.
T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.
T1558 Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to subvert Kerberos authentication by stealing or forging Kerberos tickets to enable [Pass the Ticket](https://attack.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

rittal
iot interface firmware
≤ 6.21.00.2
rittal
cmc iii processing units firmware
≤ 6.21.00.2

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 12 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V6.5.2
  • V11.3.4

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Developer testing and evaluation can discover predictable number generation through targeted analysis or fuzzing of identifier creation routines.

Cryptographic key establishment and management mandates proper entropy and randomness during generation, directly stopping predictable identifiers at the source.

Authenticator management requires secure initial distribution and handling of authenticators, structurally preventing predictable values from being usable.

Security engineering principles can include selection of strong entropy sources during design.

Mandating approved cryptographic algorithms and modules inherently requires sufficient entropy for random values and keys.

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 require cryptographically strong RNG for identifiers and tokens, covering most of this weakness while the control addresses many additional development issues.

PR.AA-03 partial match
prevents

Password-strength policies implicitly require sufficient entropy, but the control addresses authentication rather than algorithmic randomness.

PR.DS-01 partial match
prevents

Proper encryption for data-at-rest requires sufficient entropy for keys/nonces; eliminating the weakness therefore supports but does not fully realize the control.

PR.DS-02 partial match
prevents

Cryptographic protection of data-in-transit depends on adequate entropy; the weakness directly undermines the control's effectiveness.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

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

prevents

Cryptographic controls require use of approved, sufficiently random algorithms and key-generation methods, directly mitigating predictable number/identifier weaknesses.

finds

Security testing in development can detect predictable identifiers through static/dynamic analysis and fuzzing, reducing residual risk.

prevents

A secure SDLC incorporates threat modelling and secure-design reviews that flag predictable identifier generation early in the lifecycle.

prevents

Secure-coding standards explicitly forbid predictable random functions and mandate cryptographically secure RNGs, preventing the weakness at the source.

prevents

Secure authentication mechanisms depend on unpredictable session tokens, nonces and challenges; eliminating predictable identifiers strengthens authentication integrity.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Oracle Linux 8 (3 rules)
  • V-248524 OL 8 must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for the following: To provision digital signatures, to generate cryptographic hashes, and to protect data requiring data-at-rest protections in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards. prevents CWE-331, CWE-340
  • V-248563 The OL 8 SSH server must be configured to use strong entropy. prevents CWE-331
  • V-248600 OL 8 must have the packages required to use the hardware random number generator entropy gatherer service. prevents CWE-340
RHEL 7 (1 rule)
  • V-204497 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for the following: to provision digital signatures, to generate cryptographic hashes, and to protect data requiring data-at-rest protections in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards. prevents CWE-331, CWE-340
RHEL 8 (2 rules)
  • V-230223 RHEL 8 must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for the following: To provision digital signatures, to generate cryptographic hashes, and to protect data requiring data-at-rest protections in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards. prevents CWE-331
  • V-244527 RHEL 8 must have the packages required to use the hardware random number generator entropy gatherer service. prevents CWE-340

References