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FKIE_CVE-2023-6253

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-11-22 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:50

Severity

6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Summary

A saved encryption key in the Uninstaller in Digital Guardian's Agent before version 7.9.4 allows a local attacker to retrieve the uninstall key and remove the software by extracting the uninstaller key from the memory of the uninstaller file.

References

URL	Tags
551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175956/Fortra-Digital-Guardian-Agent-Uninstaller-Cross-Site-Scripting-UninstallKey-Cached.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Nov/14	Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf	https://r.sec-consult.com/fortra	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf	https://www.fortra.com/security	Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175956/Fortra-Digital-Guardian-Agent-Uninstaller-Cross-Site-Scripting-UninstallKey-Cached.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Nov/14	Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://r.sec-consult.com/fortra	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.fortra.com/security	Product

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	fortra	digital_guardian_agent	*

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CVE-2023-6253 (GCVE-0-2023-6253)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-22 11:22 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:26

Title

Saved Uninstall Key in Digital Guardian Agent Uninstaller

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-922 - Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

Assigner

SEC-VLab mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.fortra.com/security
https://r.sec-consult.com/fortra
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Nov/14
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175956/Fortr…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Fortra	Digital Guardian Agent	Affected: 0 , < 7.9.4 (patch)

Date Public

2023-11-23 08:00

Credits

J. Kruchem (SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab) B. Gründling (SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab) D. Hirschberger (SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab)

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CVE-2023-6253 (GCVE-0-2023-6253)

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