{"id":"CVE-2024-6979","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-6979","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:55:36.579Z","title":"The risk of exploitation is very low as it requires complex steps to execute, including knowing of account passwords and social engineering attacks in tricking the administrator to perform specific configurations on operator- and/or viewer-privileged…","description":"Amin Aliakbari, member of the AXIS OS Bug Bounty Program, has found a broken access control which would lead to less-privileged operator- and/or viewer accounts having more privileges than designed. The risk of exploitation is very low as it requires complex steps to execute, including knowing of account passwords and social engineering attacks in tricking the administrator to perform specific configurations on operator- and/or viewer-privileged accounts. \nAxis has released patched AXIS OS a version for the highlighted flaw. Please refer to the Axis security advisory for more information and solution.","published":"2024-09-10T06:15:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:19:07.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"product-security@axis.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-863"],"affected":["axis/axis os 2024"],"epss":{"score":0.00304,"percentile":0.23014,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.axis.com/dam/public/c3/44/5b/cve-2024-6979-en-US-448997.pdf","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"product-security@axis.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6979","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}