CVE-2024-9334: Pallium Vehicle Tracking Auth Bypass

CVE-2024-9334 Overview

CVE-2024-9334 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in E-Kent Pallium Vehicle Tracking caused by hard-coded credentials and storage of sensitive data in a mechanism without access control. The flaw affects all versions of Pallium Vehicle Tracking before 17.10.2024. Remote attackers can exploit the vulnerability over the network without authentication or user interaction to bypass authentication controls and access protected functionality. The issue is tracked under CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials.

Critical Impact
Unauthenticated remote attackers can bypass authentication on Pallium Vehicle Tracking deployments, exposing fleet location data and tracking telemetry to disclosure.

Affected Products

E-Kent Pallium Vehicle Tracking (all versions before 17.10.2024)

Discovery Timeline

2025-02-27 - CVE-2024-9334 published to NVD
2026-06-02 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2024-9334

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability combines two weaknesses in Pallium Vehicle Tracking. First, the application ships with hard-coded credentials embedded in its codebase or configuration. Second, sensitive data is stored in a mechanism that lacks access control enforcement.

An attacker who knows or recovers the embedded credentials can authenticate to the application as a legitimate user. Because authentication relies on static secrets that cannot be changed by operators, every deployment shares the same exposure. The result is an authentication bypass against the management or tracking interface.

The Turkish national CERT (USOM) published advisory TR-25-0044 describing the issue. According to the EPSS data, the current exploitation probability is 0.049% at the 15.73 percentile.

Root Cause

The root cause is CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials combined with sensitive data stored without an access control mechanism. Developers embedded authentication secrets directly into the product, and the data store holding sensitive records does not validate caller identity or authorization before returning content.

Attack Vector

The attack vector is network-based and requires no privileges or user interaction. An attacker sends crafted requests to a reachable Pallium Vehicle Tracking instance using the hard-coded credentials or by directly accessing the unprotected sensitive data store. Successful exploitation yields read access to vehicle tracking data and related fleet information without legitimate authentication.

No public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. The vulnerability is described in prose only in the Siber Güvenlik Advisory TR-25-0044 and the USOM Notification TR-25-0044.

Detection Methods for CVE-2024-9334

Indicators of Compromise

Authentication events using default or vendor-supplied account names against Pallium Vehicle Tracking endpoints.
Successful logins from unexpected source IP addresses, especially from outside operator networks or known geographies.
API or web requests retrieving bulk vehicle tracking records without a preceding authenticated session.

Detection Strategies

Inspect Pallium Vehicle Tracking application logs for repeated authentication attempts that use identical credentials across multiple sessions or hosts.
Correlate web server access logs with authentication logs to identify requests reaching protected endpoints without a valid prior login flow.
Hunt for outbound data flows from the Pallium server that contain location or telemetry payloads sent to non-corporate destinations.

Monitoring Recommendations

Forward Pallium Vehicle Tracking authentication and application logs to a centralized SIEM and alert on access from non-allowlisted IP ranges.
Track configuration files and binaries for the presence of static credential strings and flag any deployments still running versions before 17.10.2024.
Monitor network traffic to the management interface and alert on direct access from the public internet.

How to Mitigate CVE-2024-9334

Immediate Actions Required

Upgrade Pallium Vehicle Tracking to version 17.10.2024 or later as released by E-Kent.
Restrict network access to the Pallium Vehicle Tracking management interface to trusted operator networks using firewall rules or VPN gating.
Rotate any operator-managed credentials and audit user accounts created on the platform for unauthorized additions.

Patch Information

E-Kent addressed the issue in Pallium Vehicle Tracking releases on or after 17.10.2024. Refer to the Siber Güvenlik Advisory TR-25-0044 and the USOM Notification TR-25-0044 for vendor coordination details.

Workarounds

Place the Pallium Vehicle Tracking server behind a reverse proxy that enforces additional authentication, such as mutual TLS or single sign-on.
Block inbound access to the application from the public internet at the perimeter firewall until the patched version is deployed.
Enable verbose authentication logging and review access records daily until the upgrade is completed.

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# Example firewall restriction (Linux iptables) limiting access to a trusted subnet
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j DROP