CVE-2025-24456

Medium

Published: 21 January 2025

Published

21 January 2025

Modified

30 January 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

EPSS Score 0.0000 0.1th percentile

Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24456 is a medium-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability in Jetbrains Hub. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 0.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-2 (Flaw Remediation) and AC-2 (Account Management).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068). What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Directly remediates the software flaw in JetBrains Hub's improper LDAP authentication mapping by identifying, reporting, and applying vendor patches such as version 2024.3.55417.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

prevent

Enforces the principle of least privilege to limit the initial low-privilege access (PR:L) that attackers can leverage for escalation via flawed LDAP mapping.

AC-2 Account Management partial match

prevent

Manages and reviews account provisioning and privileges associated with LDAP authentication mappings to prevent or correct improper privilege assignments.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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Why these techniques?

The CVE describes a privilege escalation vulnerability via improper LDAP authentication mapping and bypass (CWE-288/306), directly enabling the Exploitation for Privilege Escalation technique.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

In JetBrains Hub before 2024.3.55417 privilege escalation was possible via LDAP authentication mapping

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-24456 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in JetBrains Hub versions prior to 2024.3.55417, stemming from improper LDAP authentication mapping. Published on 2025-01-21, it has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.7 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L) and is associated with CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel) and CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function).

An attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this over the network (AV:N), though it requires high attack complexity (AC:H) and user interaction (UI:R). Successful exploitation enables privilege escalation, resulting in high impacts on confidentiality and integrity (C:H/I:H) with low impact on availability (A:L), all within unchanged scope (S:U).

JetBrains addressed the issue in version 2024.3.55417, as detailed in their issues-fixed advisory at https://www.jetbrains.com/privacy-security/issues-fixed/. Security practitioners should upgrade to this version or later to mitigate the vulnerability.