CVE-2024-38495 Symantec Privileged Access Manager User Enumeration vulnerability
Medium 5.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-38495 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2024-38495 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Symantec Privileged Access Management, published on 15 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38495 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Broadcom Symantec Privileged Access Management. 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-2024-38495/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38495/index.md)
Attackers can enumerate all user IDs in Symantec Privileged Access Manager via a specific authentication strategy, exposing sensitive user data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-38495?
CVE-2024-38495 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Symantec Privileged Access Management, published on 15 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A specific authentication strategy allows a malicious attacker to learn ids of all PAM users defined in its database.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-38495?
How do I fix CVE-2024-38495?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-38495 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-38495 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38495 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fh4x-jgmx-j8qr.