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CVE-2024-30078

#1

Sushi

Sushi

I’m sure Steve will go over this WiFi RCE CVE-2024-30078 in the next SN, but I wanted to confirm whether or not you must be authenticated to the same WiFi network as the attacker to have exposure. From what I can tell, both the target and attacker must be authenticated (not just associated) to the same WiFi network. Can anyone confirm this?


#2

P

PHolder

confirm whether or not you must be authenticated to the same WiFi network
According to Microsoft's report:

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is adjacent (AV:A). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to be within proximity of the target system to send and receive radio transmissions.


How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?

An unauthenticated attacker could send a malicious networking packet to an adjacent system that is employing a Wi-Fi networking adapter, which could enable remote code execution.

So to me this means they just need to get to within radio range of your device. (So no access to the AP/SSID/WiFi is required.)


#3

Sushi

Sushi

According to Microsoft's report:



So to me this means they just need to get to within radio range of your device. (So no access to the AP/SSID/WiFi is required.)
If that’s the case, this is a hair on fire situation. I appreciate your take and sincerely hope you are mistaken.


#4

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PHolder

hair on fire situation
YUP! I was right, and you're right that it is a serious problem for people who have certain risk factors (they have nasty neighbours or they travel [unpatched] to places where nasty folk hang.) @Steve mentions it up top on this weeks show. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-979-notes.pdf


#5

Sushi

Sushi

YUP! I was right, and you're right that it is a serious problem for people who have certain risk factors (they have nasty neighbours or they travel [unpatched] to places where nasty folk hang.) @Steve mentions it up top on this weeks show. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-979-notes.pdf
Yeah this is pretty terrible. I hope MS finds it in their cold, black hearts to release patches for unsupported versions of Windows as well. I still have some Win 7 laptops I manage running 0patch. Hope 0patch guys are on top of it. Gonna have to figure that out next.