Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-7409

Published
05 August 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
CVSS Score v3 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.010 61th percentile
Risk Priority 61 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-7409 is a high-severity Improper Synchronization (CWE-662) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 39% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-39 (Process Isolation) and SC-4 (Information in Shared System Resources) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A flaw was found in the QEMU NBD Server. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) attack via improper synchronization during socket closure when a client keeps a socket open as the server is taken offline.

CWE(s)
CWE-662

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may circumvent mechanisms designed to control privilege elevation to gain higher-level permissions.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V15.4.1
  • V6.5.1
  • V15.1.3
  • V15.4.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-39 Process Isolation partial match

Process isolation reduces the attack surface and blast radius of synchronization failures but does not itself implement the required synchronization.

SC-4 Information in Shared System Resources partial match

SC-4 directly requires preventing unintended information transfer through shared resources, which is achieved only by proper synchronization primitives for exclusive access.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require synchronization mechanisms and concurrency testing to prevent race conditions.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect synchronization flaws but does not itself implement the required controls.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure development lifecycle requires concurrency controls and synchronization primitives to prevent race conditions.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure system architecture principles include thread-safety and resource-locking mechanisms to avoid improper synchronization.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly mandate proper use of locks, semaphores, and atomic operations to eliminate race conditions.

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