Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-7616

Medium

Published: 12 August 2024

Published
12 August 2024
Modified
13 August 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 5.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0048 65.7th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-7616 is a medium-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Edimax Ic-6220Dc Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Unix Shell (T1059.004); ranked in the top 34.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in Edimax IC-6220DC and IC-5150W up to 3.06. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function cgiFormString of the file ipcam_cgi. The manipulation of the argument host leads to command injection.…

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NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
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.
T1202 Indirect Command Execution Stealth
Adversaries may abuse utilities that allow for command execution to bypass security restrictions that limit the use of command-line interpreters.
Why these techniques?

Command injection in web CGI (ipcam_cgi 'host' parameter via cgiFormString to system()) enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190), indirect command execution through the CGI binary (T1202), and Unix shell command execution (T1059.004).

Affected Assets

edimax
ic-6220dc firmware
≤ 3.06
edimax
ic-5150w firmware
≤ 3.06

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References