CVE-2024-36495 (GCVE-0-2024-36495)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-24 08:50 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Read/Write Permissions for Everyone on Configuration File
Summary
The application Faronics WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise) saves its configuration in an encrypted file on the file system which "Everyone" has read and write access to, path to file:
C:\ProgramData\WINSelect\WINSelect.wsd
The path for the affected WINSelect Enterprise configuration file is:
C:\ProgramData\Faronics\StorageSpace\WS\WINSelect.wsd
Severity
7.7 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-05 14:37 UTC
CWE
- CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://r.sec-consult.com/winselect | third-party-advisory |
| https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/d… | release-notes |
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jun/12 |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faronics | WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise) |
Unaffected:
8.30.xx.903
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| faronics | winselect |
Unaffected:
0 , < 8.30.xx.903
(custom)
cpe:2.3:a:faronics:winselect:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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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.