CVE-2020-15593 (GCVE-0-2020-15593)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-27 13:36 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
SteelCentral 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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
2 references
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| https://aternity.force.com/customersuccess/s/arti… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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