CVE-2024-22245 Arbitrary Authentication Relay Vulnerability in Deprecated EAP Browser Plugin
A malicious actor can hijack sessions and relay authentication tickets for Active Directory users via the deprecated VMware EAP browser plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-22245?
CVE-2024-22245 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in (EAP), published on 20 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Arbitrary Authentication Relay and Session Hijack vulnerabilities in the deprecated VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in (EAP) could allow a malicious actor that could trick a target domain user with EAP installed in their web browser into requesting and relaying service tickets for arbitrary Active Directory Service Principal Names (SPNs).
Weakness: CWE-287
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22245?
How do I fix CVE-2024-22245?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-22245 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2024-22245 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-22245 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2j57-prq3-h7v2.