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Improper Access Control

CVE-2024-36323

High
8.8/10

Summary

Improper isolation of VCN-JPEG HW register space could allow a malicious Guest Virtual Machine (VM) or a process to perform unauthorized access to the register space of the JPEG cores assigned a victim VM/process, potentially gaining arbitrary read/write access to the victim VM/process data.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published