CVE-2024-38496 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-38496

Symantec Privileged Access Manager Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

The vulnerability allows a malicious low-privileged PAM user to access information about other PAM users and their group memberships.

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: December 3rd, 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.