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CVE-2024-22121 (GCVE-0-2024-22121)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-09 08:34 – Updated: 2024-08-09 15:17
VLAI
Title
Zabbix Agent MSI Installer Allows Non-Admin User to Access Change Option via msiexec.exe
Summary
A non-admin user can change or remove important features within the Zabbix Agent application, thus impacting the integrity and availability of the application.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-09 15:17 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Zabbix Zabbix Affected: 5.0.0 , ≤ 5.0.42 (git)
Affected: 6.0.0 , ≤ 6.0.30 (git)
Affected: 6.4.0 , ≤ 6.4.15 (git)
Affected: 7.0.0alpha1 , ≤ 7.0.0rc2 (git)
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Date Public
2024-06-12 10:37
Credits
Zabbix wants to thank gee-netics who submitted this report in HackerOne bug bounty platform
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.