OS Command Injection in systeminformation - CVE-2024-56334

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OS Command Injection in systeminformation - CVE-2024-56334

Published: June 24, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU111870
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56334
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to some versions of SSIDs are not sanitized when before they are passed as a parameter to cmd.exe in the `getWindowsIEEE8021x` function. A local user can perform remote code execution or local privilege escalation


Affected software

systeminformation
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

How to mitigate CVE-2024-56334

Install updates from vendor's website.

systeminformation - update to 5.23.7
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - update to 10.1.17.1

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