CVE-2024-0213 Memory corruption in Trellix Agent (TA)
A local attacker can exploit a buffer overflow in Trellix Agent to gain elevated privileges or cause a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-0213?
CVE-2024-0213 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Trellix Agent (TA), published on 9 Jan 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in TA for Linux and TA for MacOS prior to 5.8.1 allows a local user to gain elevated permissions, or cause a Denial of Service (DoS), through exploiting a memory corruption issue in the TA service, which runs as root. This may also result in the disabling of event reporting to ePO, caused by failure to validate input from the file correctly.
Weakness: CWE-120
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0213?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Trellix Agent.
How do I fix CVE-2024-0213?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0213 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-0213 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-0213 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Trellix Agent (TA)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qmfw-q6m7-ff6j.