CVE-2020-15593

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-15593
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-27 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionSteelCentral Aternity Agent 11.0.0.120 on Windows mishandles IPC. It uses an executable running as a high privileged Windows service to perform administrative tasks and collect data from other processes. It distributes functionality among different processes and uses IPC (Inter-Process Communication) primitives to enable the processes to cooperate. Any user in the system is allowed to access the interprocess communication channel AternityAgentAssistantIpc, retrieve a serialized object and call object methods remotely. Among others, the methods allow any user to: (1) Create and/or overwrite arbitrary XML files across the system; (2) Create arbitrary directories across the system; and (3) Load arbitrary plugins (i.e., C# assemblies) from the "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)/Aternity Information Systems/Assistant/plugins” directory and execute code contained in them.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Riverbed Steelcentral Aternity Agent 11.0.0.120 All All All
Application Riverbed Steelcentral Aternity Agent 11.0.0.120 All All All

References

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Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in SteelCentral Aternity Agent – SEC Consult MISC sec-consult.com Third Party Advisory
aternity.force.com/customersuccess/s/article/Recorder-tool-security-notification... CONFIRM aternity.force.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
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