# CVE-2024-1605: DLL side-loading in BMC Control-M

> Attackers can execute arbitrary code with application privileges by placing malicious DLLs in a world-writable directory loaded during user login.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 10 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wpc3-225m-fg2m

## What is CVE-2024-1605?

CVE-2024-1605 is a medium-severity vulnerability in BMC Control-M, published on 18 Mar 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

BMC Control-M  branches 9.0.20 and 9.0.21 upon user login load all Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL)  from a directory that grants Write and Read permissions to all users. Leveraging it leads to loading of a potentially malicious libraries, which will execute with the application's privileges. 

Fix for 9.0.20 branch was released in version 9.0.20.238. Fix for 9.0.21 branch was released in version 9.0.21.201.

Weakness: CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1605?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Bmc Control-M.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-1605?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1605 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1605 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1605 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in BMC Control-M

- [CVE-2023-39122](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-39122/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-26550](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26550/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-1604](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1604/): Incorrect authorization in BMC Control-M (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-1606](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1606/): HTML injection in BMC Control-M (medium 4.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1605 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1605 is a medium-severity vulnerability in BMC Control-M, published on 18 Mar 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1605 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: BMC Control-M. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1605/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1605/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1605
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1605
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1605

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1605/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.