CVE-2024-8299: Detailed Vulnerability Analysis and Overview

CVE-2024-8299 Vulnerability Summary

Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in ICONICS GENESIS64 all versions, Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS64 all versions and Mitsubishi Electric MC Works64 all versions allows a local authenticated attacker to execute a malicious code by storing a specially crafted DLL in a specific folder. This could lead to disclose, tamper with, destroy, or delete information in the affected products, or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on the products.

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CVE-2024-8299: Detailed Information and External References

EPSS

0.00045

EPSS %

0.17329

References

0.00045

• https://jvn.jp/vu/JVNVU93891820
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-338-04
• https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/en/psirt/vulnerability/pdf/2024-010_en.pdf

CWE

CWE-427

CAPEC

0.00045

• Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths: This pattern of attack sees an adversary load a malicious resource into a program's standard path so that when a known command is executed then the system instead executes the malicious component. The adversary can either modify the search path a program uses, like a PATH variable or classpath, or they can manipulate resources on the path to point to their malicious components. J2EE applications and other component based applications that are built from multiple binaries can have very long list of dependencies to execute. If one of these libraries and/or references is controllable by the attacker then application controls can be circumvented by the attacker.
• Search Order Hijacking: An adversary exploits a weakness in an application's specification of external libraries to exploit the functionality of the loader where the process loading the library searches first in the same directory in which the process binary resides and then in other directories. Exploitation of this preferential search order can allow an attacker to make the loading process load the adversary's rogue library rather than the legitimate library. This attack can be leveraged with many different libraries and with many different loading processes. No forensic trails are left in the system's registry or file system that an incorrect library had been loaded.

CVSS3 Source

Mitsubishielectric.Psirt@yd.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

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