CVE-2024-8504
Published: 10 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-8504 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Korelogic (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 0.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-8504 is an OS command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) affecting the VICIdial telephony platform. An authenticated user with the "agent" role can supply crafted input that results in arbitrary shell command execution with root privileges on the underlying host.
An attacker who obtains or is granted agent-level credentials can directly achieve full system compromise. The flaw can also be chained with the related CVE-2024-8503 issue to reach the same root-level command execution from an unauthenticated starting point, yielding a CVSS 8.8 score reflecting network-accessible impact with low attack complexity.
Public advisories from KoreLogic and the September 2024 Full Disclosure posting on Seclists.org detail the issue and point to the VICIdial project site for further information. The associated EPSS score has reached 0.93, indicating substantial exploitation interest following disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-49225
Vulnerability details
An attacker with authenticated access to VICIdial as an "agent" can execute arbitrary shell commands as the "root" user. This attack can be chained with CVE-2024-8503 to execute arbitrary shell commands starting from an unauthenticated perspective.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.