CVE-2024-38089: Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
Critical (CVSS 9.1)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Elevation of Privilege
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2024-Jul
Released
2024-07-09
EPSS Score
1.65% (percentile: 82.0%)

FAQ

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability would gain the ability to escape the AppContainer and impersonate a non-AppContainer token. According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability? In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment. How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by escaping the sensor-app docker container (which is running the web application) and running commands on the host. This would allow them to enter any other containers and potentially gain control over the system.

Affected Products (1)

System Center

  • Microsoft Defender for IoT

Security Updates (1)

Acknowledgments

<a href="https://www.siemens-energy.com/">Siemens Energy</a>

Revision History

  • 2024-07-09: Information published.