Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-5866

Medium

Published: 02 July 2024

Published
02 July 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0016 37.3th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-5866 is a medium-severity Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename' (CWE-26) vulnerability in Delinea Privileged Access Service. Its CVSS base score is 5.0 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique File and Directory Discovery (T1083); ranked at the 37.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability in Delinea Centrify PAS v. 21.3 and possibly others. The application is prone to the path traversal vulnerability allowing listing of arbitrary directory outside the root directory of the web application. Versions 23.1-HF7 and on have the patch.

CWE(s)
CWE-26CWE-22

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1083 File and Directory Discovery Discovery
Adversaries may enumerate files and directories or may search in specific locations of a host or network share for certain information within a file system.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

The path traversal vulnerability allows listing arbitrary directories outside the web root, enabling exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and facilitating file and directory discovery (T1083).

Affected Assets

delinea
privileged access service
≤ 22.3

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.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References