CVE-2024-1605: DLL side-loading in BMC Control-M

6.6 CVSS

Description

BMC Control-M branches 9.0.20 and 9.0.21 upon user login load all Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) from a directory that grants Write and Read permissions to all users. Leveraging it leads to loading of a potentially malicious libraries, which will execute with the application's privileges.

Fix for 9.0.20 branch was released in version 9.0.20.238. Fix for 9.0.21 branch was released in version 9.0.21.201.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-1605

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.6

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

Problem Types

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

Vendor: BMC

Product: Control-M

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 7.63% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1605
https://cert.pl/posts/2024/03/CVE-2024-1604
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2024/03/CVE-2024-1604
https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/control-m.html

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