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CVE-2024-41779 — Ibm Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 9.8

IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - Model Manager 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to remotely execute code.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
Published
2024-11-22
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-367

Affected products

  • ibm / engineering_systems_design_rhapsody / 7.0.2
  • ibm / engineering_systems_design_rhapsody / 7.0.3

Matched remediation archetype

Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization

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Check exposure

  • Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
  • Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
  • Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.

Remediate safely

  • Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
  • Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
  • Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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