CVE-2024-3411: Insufficient Randomness When Validating an IPMI Authenticated Session

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-331

Description

Implementations of IPMI Authenticated sessions does not provide enough randomness to protect from session hijacking, allowing an attacker to use either predictable IPMI Session ID or weak BMC Random Number to bypass security controls using spoofed IPMI packets to manage BMC device.

Affected products

Intel *: IPMI 2.0, revision 1.1E7

References

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/163057
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-US/000226504/dsa-2024-295-security-update-for-dell-idrac8-ipmi-session-vulnerability
https://www.intel.la/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/ipmi-intelligent-platform-mgt-interface-spec-2nd-gen-v2-0-spec-update.pdf
https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/163057
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-US/000226504/dsa-2024-295-security-update-for-dell-idrac8-ipmi-session-vulnerability
https://www.intel.la/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/ipmi-intelligent-platform-mgt-interface-spec-2nd-gen-v2-0-spec-update.pdf
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/163057

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