Dell Enterprise SONiC OS up to 4.1.5/4.2.1 os command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Dell Enterprise SONiC OS up to 4.1.5/4.2.1. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-45765. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Dell Enterprise SONiC OS up to 4.1.5/4.2.1. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Dell Enterprise SONiC OS, version(s) 4.1.x, 4.2.x, contain(s) an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Command execution. This is a critical severity vulnerability as it allows high privilege OS commands to be executed with a less privileged role; so Dell recommends customers to upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

The weakness was published by N3k as dsa-2024-449. The advisory is shared at dell.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-45765 since 09/06/2024. 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 11/08/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 4.1.6 or 4.2.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Dell

Name

• Enterprise SONiC OS

Version

• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5
• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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