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Even if it had been enabled, a vulnerability (CVE ‑2024‑2617)
CVE-2024-2617 High · 7.2 EPSS 0.7%
A vulnerability exists in the RTU500 that allows for authenticated and authorized users to bypass secure update, if…
Hitachi Energy · RTU500 series CMU firmware
Official description · CVE.org
A vulnerability exists in the RTU500 that allows for authenticated and authorized users to bypass secure update, if secure update feature was not enabled on all CMUs of a RTU500. If a malicious actor successfully exploits this vulnerability, they could use it to update the RTU500 with unsigned firmware.
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19.3 / 100
- Exploited
- Not confirmed
- Reports
- 1
- Tactics
- 0/15
Exploitation timelineDated milestones for a CVE: when it was disclosed, when exploit code became public, when exploitation was confirmed, and when threat reports named it.
Disclosed on 30 Apr 2024. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
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No techniques linkedNo ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
What security researchers reported
Named in 1 threat report1 reportcert.pl
Reports are matched by finding the exact id CVE-2024-2617 in their text; nobody has reviewed the match. One passage is shown per report, at most 320 characters, linked to the original.