Cyber Posture

CVE-2024-49561

High

Published: 17 March 2025

Published
17 March 2025
Modified
08 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0008 22.8th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

Security Summary

CVE-2024-49561 is an Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability (CWE-266) in Dell SmartFabric OS10 Software, affecting versions 10.5.4.x, 10.5.5.x, 10.5.6.x, and 10.6.0.x. Published on 2025-03-17, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts from a local attack requiring low privileges and no user interaction.

A low-privileged attacker with local access could exploit this vulnerability to achieve elevation of privileges on the affected system.

Dell has issued multiple security advisories addressing this and related OS10 vulnerabilities, including DSA-2025-070 (https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000289970/dsa-2025-070-security-update-for-dell-networking-os10-vulnerabilities), DSA-2025-069 (https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000293638/dsa-2025-069-security-update-for-dell-networking-os10-vulnerabilities), DSA-2025-079 (https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000294091/dsa-2025-079-security-update-for-dell-networking-os10-vulnerabilities), and DSA-2025-068 (https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000295014/dsa-2025-068-security-update-for-dell-networking-os10-vulnerabilities). These provide security updates for mitigation.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-266

Affected Products

dell
smartfabric os10
10.5.4.0 — 10.5.4.14 · 10.5.5.0 — 10.5.5.13 · 10.5.6.0 — 10.5.6.8

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
Why these techniques?

The CVE describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CWE-266) allowing a low-privileged attacker to elevate privileges on the system, directly enabling T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

References