Broadcom Symantec Privileged Access Management up to 3.4.6/4.1.7 HTTP Request command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Broadcom Symantec Privileged Access Management up to 3.4.6/4.1.7 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-38494. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Broadcom Symantec Privileged Access Management up to 3.4.6/4.1.7. This issue affects an unknown part of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

This vulnerability allows a high-privileged authenticated PAM user to achieve remote command execution on the affected PAM system by sending a specially crafted HTTP request.

The advisory is shared at support.broadcom.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-38494 since 06/18/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/15/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Access Management Software

Vendor

• Broadcom

Name

• Symantec Privileged Access Management

Version

• 3.4.0
• 3.4.1
• 3.4.2
• 3.4.3
• 3.4.4
• 3.4.5
• 3.4.6
• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5
• 4.1.6
• 4.1.7

License

• commercial

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