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CVE-2024-4978

Malicious Code in Justice AV Solutions (JAVS) Viewer

Exploited in attacks High 8.7 Attack chance: 27%
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What it is

Justice AV Solutions Viewer Setup 8.3.7.250-1 contains a malicious binary when executed and is signed with an unexpected authenticode signature. A remote, privileged threat actor may exploit this vulnerability to execute of unauthorized PowerShell commands.

CISA: Justice AV Solutions (JAVS) Viewer installer contains a malicious version of ffmpeg.exe, named fffmpeg.exe (SHA256: 421a4ad2615941b177b6ec4ab5e239c14e62af2ab07c6df1741e2a62223223c4). When run, this creates a backdoor connection to a malicious C2 server.

What to do

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Deadline for US federal agencies: June 19, 2024

Added to the CISA list
May 29, 2024
Published
May 23, 2024
Severity
High 8.7 CVSS 4.0
Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
27% in the top 2.0% of all known vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-506
More details
NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (3)

Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.