CVE-2024-38494 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2024-38494

Symantec Privileged Access Manager Remote Command Execution vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Abdel Adim `smaury` Oisfi of Shielder (https://www.shielder.com) - research@shielder.com
  • Paolo Cavaglià of Shielder (https://www.shielder.com) - research@shielder.com

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Symantec Privileged Access Management
Vulnerable Versions:
4.1.0 - 4.1.7, 3.4.6

Timeline

Official Publish: July 15th, 2024
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.