CVE-2024-49814
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 · uneditedIBM Security Verify Access Appliance 10.0.0 through 10.0.3 could allow a locally authenticated user to increase their privileges due to execution with unnecessary privileges.
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 · high confidenceIBM Security Verify Access Appliance versions 10.0.0 through 10.0.3 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability where a locally authenticated user can elevate their privileges due to the application running with unnecessary elevated privileges.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data>= 10.0.0, <= 10.0.3CVSS 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
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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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Identify installed IBM Security Verify Access versionRun the command to display the product version, such as 'verify version' or check the /opt/ibm/verify directory for version files, or use the product's admin interface to view system informationAffected if The installed version is 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, or 10.0.3
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Determine the runtime user context of the application processesUse commands such as 'ps aux | grep verify' or 'ps -ef | grep verify' to list running processes and their associated user IDs. Check whether the Verify Access processes run as root or another privileged user accountAffected if The Verify Access application processes run as root or a highly privileged user account rather than a dedicated low-privilege service account
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Check for presence of locally authenticated user accountsReview the local user database using 'cat /etc/passwd' (Linux) or check local user management in the operating system to enumerate user accounts that have local system accessAffected if Local user accounts exist on the system who could potentially authenticate and exploit the privilege escalation vector
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Verify unnecessary privilege assignmentsReview the application configuration and startup scripts in /opt/ibm/verify or the installation directory to identify if the service is configured to run with root privileges or has setuid binariesAffected if The application is configured to run with root privileges or contains binaries with elevated permission sets that are not required for normal operation
You are affected if IBM Security Verify Access version 10.0.0 through 10.0.3 is installed AND the application runs with elevated privileges AND local user accounts exist on the system.
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 dataApply the vendor patch or upgrade to a fixed version beyond 10.0.3 to remove the unnecessary privileges and prevent local privilege escalation.
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- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-49814 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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