CVE-2024-28115

Privilege Escalation in FreeRTOS Kernel ARMv7-M MPU ports and ARMv8-M ports with MPU support enabled

Published: Mar 7, 2024Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-284

8.8HIGH

Description

FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS Kernel versions through 10.6.1 do not sufficiently protect against local privilege escalation via Return Oriented Programming techniques should a vulnerability exist that allows code injection and execution. These issues affect ARMv7-M MPU ports, and ARMv8-M ports with Memory Protected Unit (MPU) support enabled (i.e. `configENABLE_MPU` set to 1). These issues are fixed in version 10.6.2 with a new MPU wrapper.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAttack Vector

Local

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:CScope

Changed

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-284 NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

commercial·USaka freertos, freertos plus tcp, aws vpn client

FreeRTOSMixed

Cloud & SaaS / cloud-platform

amazon

commercial·US

freertosEmbeddedOS

ICS / OT / IoT

FreeRTOS

oss-projectaka coremqtt, freertos-plus-tcp, freertos-kernel

FreeRTOS-KernelEmbedded

Operating Systems / rtos-embedded-os

Exploitability

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References

https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/releases/tag/V10.6.2

github.com

https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/security/advisories/GHSA-xcv7-v92w-gq6r

github.com

https://www.freertos.org/security/kernel-threat-model.html

freertos.org

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