# CVE-2024-47856: CVE-2024-47856

Status: published. Published: 2025-11-24. Updated: 2026-11-08.

In RSA Authentication Agent before 7.4.7, service paths and shortcut paths may be vulnerable to path interception if the path has one or more spaces and is not surrounded by quotation marks. An adversary can place an executable in a higher-level directory of the path, and Windows will resolve that executable instead of the intended executable.

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

- rsa / authentication_agent_for_windows: < 7.4.7 (affected, custom). Source: NVD

## NVD configuration conditions

Affected CPE matches depend on the following AND/OR and negation conditions:

```json
[
  {
    "negate": false,
    "nodes": [
      {
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:rsa:authentication_agent_for_windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "versionEndExcluding": "7.4.7",
            "vulnerable": true
          }
        ],
        "negate": false,
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ],
    "operator": "OR"
  }
]
```

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 9.8 (critical); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H; source: NVD: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: exploitation none; automatable yes; technical impact total; source NVD SSVC: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- Weaknesses: CWE-23

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://community.rsa.com/s/article/RSA-2024-13-RSA-Authentication-Agent-for-Microsoft-Windows-Security-Update (cve@mitre.org; Vendor Advisory)

- https://community.rsa.com/s/product-download/a9G4u000000mCOYEAU/rsa-authentication-agent-747-for-microsoft-windows (cve@mitre.org; Permissions Required)

## Provenance

- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47856; retrieved 2026-11-09; source updated 2026-11-08

Revision: 20b478193011629b44f588acb5f73c1061b082d5f7d2619e6cc93763527290d1

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2024-47856

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