CVE-2024-28139 (GCVE-0-2024-28139)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-11 15:36 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:54
VLAI?
Summary
The www-data user can elevate its privileges because sudo is configured to allow the execution of the mount command as root without a password. Therefore, the privileges can be escalated to the root user. The risk has been accepted by the vendor and won't be fixed in the near future.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Image Access GmbH Scan2Net Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.42B (custom)
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Credits
Daniel Hirschberger (SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab) Tobias Niemann (SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab)
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