Privilege escalation in C-Mor Video Surveillance

CVE-2024-45173

An issue was discovered in za-internet C-MOR Video Surveillance 5.2401. Due to improper privilege management concerning sudo privileges, C-MOR is vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack. The Linux user www-data running the C-MOR web interface can execute some OS commands as root via Sudo without having to enter the root password. These commands, for example, include cp, chown, and chmod, which enable an attacker to modify the system's sudoers file in order to execute all commands with root privileges. Thus, it is possible to escalate the limited privileges of the user www-data to root privileges.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.009 (56.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-45173?
CVE-2024-45173 is a high-severity vulnerability in C-Mor Video Surveillance, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2024-09-05.
How severe is CVE-2024-45173?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-45173 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.