CVE-2024-5461

High

Published: 15 February 2025

Published

15 February 2025

Modified

23 February 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0013 31.1th percentile

Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-5461 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Network Device CLI (T1059.008); ranked at the 31.1th 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 CM-7 (Least Functionality) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Network Device CLI (T1059.008) and 2 other techniques. 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 remediates the command injection flaw in the SNMP implementation by applying vendor patches as specified in the Broadcom advisory.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Prevents OS command injection by validating and sanitizing SNMP inputs before they are passed to system.sh calls within the SNMP binary.

CM-7 Least Functionality good match

prevent

Restricts or disables unnecessary SNMP operations on the Brocade 6547 embedded switch to eliminate the attack surface for authenticated command injection.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.008 Network Device CLI Execution

Adversaries may abuse scripting or built-in command line interpreters (CLI) on network devices to execute malicious command and payloads.

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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement

Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.

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Why these techniques?

OS command injection in SNMP service on network device directly enables remote command execution (T1059.008), privilege escalation to root (T1068), and exploitation of the remote management service (T1210).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

Implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) operating on the Brocade 6547 (FC5022) embedded switch blade, makes internal script calls to system.sh from within the SNMP binary. An authenticated attacker could perform command or parameter injection on SNMP operations…

that are only enabled on the Brocade 6547 (FC5022) embedded switch. This injection could allow the authenticated attacker to issue commands as Root.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2024-5461 is a command or parameter injection vulnerability in the implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) on the Brocade 6547 (FC5022) embedded switch blade. The SNMP binary makes internal script calls to system.sh, enabling injection flaws specifically in SNMP operations that are only enabled on this embedded switch. This issue, classified under CWE-78 (OS Command Injection), carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.0 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

An authenticated attacker with low privileges, positioned on an adjacent network, can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. By targeting SNMP operations on the Brocade 6547 (FC5022) embedded switch, the attacker can inject commands or parameters into the system.sh calls, ultimately executing arbitrary commands with root privileges. This grants high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, potentially leading to full system compromise.

Mitigation details are available in the Broadcom security advisory at https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24411. Security practitioners should consult this reference for patching instructions and workarounds specific to affected Brocade devices.