CVE-2024-57434

HighPublic PoC

Published: 31 January 2025

Published

31 January 2025

Modified

22 April 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0021 42.9th percentile

Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-57434 is a high-severity Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) vulnerability in Macrozheng Mall-Tiny. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Default Accounts (T1078.001); ranked at the 42.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-2 (Account Management) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Default Accounts (T1078.001). What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

AC-2 Account Management good match

prevent

AC-2 requires proper management of accounts, including disabling or not provisioning default test accounts with super administrator privileges during setup.

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

prevent

AC-6 enforces least privilege, preventing the assignment of super administrator access to unnecessary accounts like default test users.

CM-6 Configuration Settings good match

prevent

CM-6 mandates secure configuration settings that avoid importing users with excessive privileges by default in application setups.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1078.001 Default Accounts Stealth

Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a default account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.

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Why these techniques?

Incorrect access control vulnerability provides a default test user with super administrator privileges, enabling adversaries to use default accounts for initial access.

NVD Description

macrozheng mall-tiny 1.0.1 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control. The project imports users by default, and the test user is made a super administrator.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2024-57434 is an Incorrect Access Control vulnerability (CWE-863) in macrozheng mall-tiny version 1.0.1. The affected application imports users by default upon setup, automatically assigning the test user super administrator privileges. This flaw has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and was published on 2025-01-31.

The vulnerability can be exploited by a low-privileged authenticated user (PR:L) over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation grants the attacker super administrator access, enabling high-impact compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H).

Mitigation guidance is available in the referenced advisory at https://github.com/peccc/restful_vul/blob/main/mall_tiny_weak_password/mall_tiny_weak_password.md.