CVE-2024-28200 (GCVE-0-2024-28200)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-01 20:49 – Updated: 2024-08-02 00:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
N-central Authentication Bypass
Summary
The N-central server is vulnerable to an authentication bypass of the user interface. This vulnerability is present in all deployments of N-central prior to 2024.2.
This vulnerability was discovered through internal N-central source code review and N-able has not observed any exploitation in the wild.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-02 15:26 UTC
CWE
- CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Assigner
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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