Is CVE-2024-8996 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2024-8996 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2024-8996?

CVE-2024-8996 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.3 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2024-8996?

CVE-2024-8996 has an EPSS score of 0.26% (18th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2024-8996?

Upgrade agent to 0.43.2 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2024-8996

HIGH

7.3

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in Grafana Agent (Flow mode) on Windows allows Privilege Escalation from Local User to SYSTEM This issue affects Agent Flow: before 0.43.2

CWE-428

How to fix

Remediation Available

agentNVD

Affected:< 0.43.2Fixed in:0.43.2CVE-2024-8996derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.26%probability of exploitation in 30 days

18thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 18% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory2

Release Notes1

github.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-428 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2023-38408	Critical	9.8	77%	-	Fix
CVE-2020-15261	High	8.0	11%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-10619	High	7.8	2.8%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-17658	Critical	9.8	2.2%	-	-
CVE-2015-4173	Medium	6.9	2.1%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-16647	High	7.2	2.0%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-10-01.