CVE-2024-36339
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA DLL hijacking vulnerability in the AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries could allow an attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThis is a DLL hijacking vulnerability in AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries (AOCL) where the application loads DLLs from insecure paths, allowing an attacker to place a malicious DLL that gets loaded with elevated privileges. Successful exploitation enables privilege escalation to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected process.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm AOCL installation and versionCheck for AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries installation: look for AOCL in Program Files, or run 'aocl version' or 'aocl diagnose' if the AMD AOCL command-line tool is available. Record the installed version number.Affected if AOCL is installed and running, but the version cannot be compared to a fixed patched version because no version ranges were provided in this CVE data.
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Identify AOCL executable and DLL loading behaviorUse process monitoring tools (such as Process Monitor from Sysinternals) or dependency walking tools (like dumpbin /dependents) on AOCL executables to observe which DLLs the application attempts to load and from which paths.Affected if AOCL executables load DLLs from directories that are not secured or use relative paths instead of fully qualified paths.
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Review DLL search path configurationExamine the environment variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux) and any AOCL-specific configuration files. Check the system DLL search order: on Windows, verify whether the current working directory is in the search path, or inspect the application's manifest forDllSearchPath settings.Affected if The DLL search paths include user-writable directories, the current directory, or paths outside the AOCL installation directory.
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Verify directory permissions on AOCL pathsCheck file system permissions on directories where AOCL loads DLLs from. Use icacls (Windows) or ls -la (Linux) to list ACLs on the AOCL installation directory and any directories in its DLL search path.Affected if Any directory in the DLL search path allows write access to non-privileged users, enabling them to place a malicious DLL.
A user is affected if AOCL is installed, loads DLLs from insecure or user-writable paths, and those paths permit non-privileged users to place files that get loaded by AOCL executables running with elevated privileges.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataRemediate by identifying and securing DLL load paths (use fully qualified paths, remove current directory from search order, or implement secure DLL loading via manifests), and/or apply any vendor-provided patches to AOCL. Ensure directory permissions prevent unauthorized DLL placement.
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