Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-8796

Medium

Published: 17 September 2024

Published
17 September 2024
Modified
30 September 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 6.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/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 0.0024 48.1th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-8796 is a medium-severity Insufficient Entropy (CWE-331) vulnerability in Tinfoilsecurity Devise-Two-Factor. Its CVSS base score is 6.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Under the default configuration, Devise-Two-Factor versions >= 2.2.0 & < 6.0.0 generate TOTP shared secrets that are 120 bits instead of the 128-bit minimum defined by RFC 4226. Using a shared secret shorter than the minimum to generate a multi-factor…

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authentication code could make it easier for an attacker to guess the shared secret and generate valid TOTP codes.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

tinfoilsecurity
devise-two-factor
1.0.0 · 4.0.0 — 6.0.0

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.

addresses: CWE-331

Approved key-establishment methods mandate sufficient entropy during key generation, eliminating entropy-starved keys.

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