CVE-2024-57426
Published: 06 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-57426 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Sourceforge (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique DLL (T1574.001); ranked at the 23.8th 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 CM-14 (Signed Components) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-57426 is a DLL injection vulnerability in NetMod VPN Client version 5.3.1. The issue arises from improper validation of dynamically loaded libraries (CWE-427), enabling an attacker to place a malicious DLL in a directory where the application loads dependencies, resulting in arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and no user interaction. An attacker can achieve limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through successful exploitation.
Mitigation details are available in the referenced advisories, including the GitHub repository at https://github.com/iamsinghmanish/My-CVEs/tree/main/CVE-2024-57426 and the project page at https://sourceforge.net/projects/netmodhttp/.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-53581
Vulnerability details
NetMod VPN Client 5.3.1 is vulnerable to DLL injection, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious DLL in a directory where the application loads dependencies. This vulnerability arises due to the improper validation of dynamically loaded…
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
CWE-427 enables malicious DLL placement in load path for arbitrary code execution (DLL side-loading).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly remediates the DLL injection flaw by identifying, reporting, and correcting improper validation of dynamically loaded libraries through timely patching.
Requires digital signatures or cryptographic hashes for software components like DLLs prior to execution, preventing loading of malicious DLLs from insecure directories.
Employs integrity verification tools to detect unauthorized changes to dynamically loaded libraries, blocking or identifying malicious DLL execution.