VDB-255811 · CVE-2024-2005 · GCVE-0-2024-2005

Blue Planet Inventory privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Blue Planet Inventory, Orchestration, Route Optimization and Analysis and Unified Assurance and Analytics and classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes privileges management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-2005. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Blue Planet Inventory, Orchestration, Route Optimization and Analysis and Unified Assurance and Analytics (the affected version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Blue Planet® products through 22.12, a misconfiguration in the SAML implementation allows for privilege escalation. Only products using SAML authentication are affected. Blue Planet® has released software updates that address this vulnerability for the affected products. Customers are advised to upgrade their Blue Planet products to the latest software version as soon as possible. The software updates can be downloaded from the Ciena Support Portal.

The weakness was released 03/05/2024. It is possible to read the advisory at ciena.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-2005 since 02/29/2024. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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Productinfo

Vendor

Blue Planet

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.5

VulDB Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Temp Score: 8.4
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NVD Base Score: 8.0
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CNA Base Score: 9.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Timelineinfo

02/29/2024 🔍
03/05/2024 +5 days 🔍
03/05/2024 +0 days 🔍
11/13/2025 +618 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: ciena.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-2005 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-2005
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-255811

Entryinfo

Created: 03/05/2024 20:59
Updated: 11/13/2025 17:52
Changes: 03/05/2024 20:59 (46), 04/04/2024 20:02 (15), 03/05/2025 00:14 (13), 11/13/2025 17:52 (1)
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