CVE-2024-10972 (GCVE-0-2024-10972)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-16 14:49
Modified
2025-09-05 08:40
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Summary
Velocidex WinPmem versions 4.1 and below suffer from an Improper Input Validation vulnerability whereby an attacker with admin access can trigger a BSOD with a parallel thread changing the memory’s access right under the control of the user-mode application. This is due to verification only being performed at the beginning of the routine allowing the userspace to change page permissions half way through the routine.  A valid workaround is a rule to detect unauthorized loading of winpmem outside incident response operations.
References
cve@rapid7.comhttps://github.com/Velocidex/WinPmem/releases/tag/v4.1.dev1
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Velocidex WinPmem Version: <= 4.1   ≤
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