CVE-2024-38029

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires multiple conditions to be met, such as specific application behavior, user actions, manipulation of parameters passed to a function, and impersonation of an integrity level token.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?

Exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to remote into a server that is controlled by an attacker, which could then allow the server to execute a command on the user's machine without their consent. This scenario assumes that the user has the ability to remote into the server and that the server has been compromised to execute such commands upon connection.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?

An attacker could remotely load a malicious DLL onto a machine where the ssh-agent service is launched with the -Oallow-remote-pkcs11 option, which could lead to remote code execution.

This vulnerability arises because the ssh-pkcs11-helper.exe is configured to allow remote DLL loading, which is not intended for arbitrary remote libraries but rather for pkcs providers already present on the remote machine.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and the user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?

This attack requires a client to connect to a malicious server, and that could allow the attacker to gain code execution on the client.