# CVE-2024-25957: Information disclosure in Grab for Windows

> An authenticated local attacker can read sensitive information stored in cleartext, potentially leading to elevated privileges in Dell Grab for Windows.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hmhr-xf6m-r87c

## What is CVE-2024-25957?

CVE-2024-25957 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell Grab for Windows, published on 26 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

Dell Grab for Windows, versions 5.0.4 and below, contains a cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability in its appsync module. An authenticated local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to information disclosure that could be used to access the appsync application with elevated privileges.

Weakness: CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25957?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dell Grab.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-25957?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-25957 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-25957 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25957 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Dell Grab for Windows

- [CVE-2024-25958](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25958/): Privilege escalation in Grab for Windows (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2024-25956](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25956/): Information disclosure in Grab for Windows (medium 5.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-25957 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-25957 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell Grab for Windows, published on 26 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-2024-25957 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell Grab for Windows. 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-2024-25957/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25957/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25957
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25957
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-25957

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25957/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.