CVE-2024-50588
Published: 08 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-50588 is a critical-severity Unprotected Primary Channel (CWE-419) vulnerability in Hasomed (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 40.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-44965
Vulnerability details
An unauthenticated attacker with access to the local network of the medical office can use known default credentials to gain remote DBA access to the Elefant Firebird database. The data in the database includes patient data and login credentials among…
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other sensitive data. In addition, this enables an attacker to create and overwrite arbitrary files on the server filesystem with the rights of the Firebird database ("NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM").
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Changing default authenticators prior to first use prevents use of default passwords.
Requires authentication that meets guidelines, avoiding default passwords for cryptographic module access.
Threat awareness programs disseminate botnet and scanning activity tied to default passwords, driving organizations to change or enforce non-default credentials before mass exploitation occurs.
TSCM employment uncovers unprotected primary channels that have been physically or technically compromised for surveillance.