# CVE-2024-6979: Missing authorization in AXIS OS

> Broken access control allows low-privilege users to gain unauthorized privileges, requiring complex social engineering and specific configurations to exploit.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v4c3-j4px-23w3

## What is CVE-2024-6979?

CVE-2024-6979 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in AXIS OS, published on 10 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Amin Aliakbari, member of the AXIS OS Bug Bounty Program, has found a broken access control which would lead to less-privileged operator- and/or viewer accounts having more privileges than designed. The risk of exploitation is very low as it requires complex steps to execute, including knowing of account passwords and social engineering attacks in tricking the administrator to perform specific configurations on operator- and/or viewer-privileged accounts. 
Axis has released patched AXIS OS a version for the highlighted flaw. Please refer to the Axis security advisory for more information and solution.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6979?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Axis Axis Os 2024.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-6979?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6979 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-6979 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6979 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-6979 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in AXIS OS, published on 10 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: AXIS OS. 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-2024-6979/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6979/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6979
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6979
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6979

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6979/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.