CVE-2024-9858 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-9858

Insecure user permissions in Google Cloud Migrate to Containers for Windows

Vulnerability Description

There exists an insecure default user permission in Google Cloud Migrate to containers from version 1.1.0 to 1.2.2 Windows installs. A local "m2cuser" was greated with administrator privileges. This posed a security risk if the "analyze" or "generate" commands were interrupted or skipping the action to delete the local user “m2cuser”. We recommend upgrading to 1.2.3 or beyond

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

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Google Cloud

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Affected Software

Migrate to Containers
Vulnerable Versions:
1.1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 16th, 2024
Last Modified: October 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-276

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1222 File and Directory Permissions Modification
Defense Evasion
T1078 Valid Accounts
Persistence
T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege Escalation
T1021 Remote Services
Lateral Movement
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection