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GHSA-FH7H-QP2R-QP8P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-11-08 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:31

Details

An attacker with local access the to medical office computer can escalate his Windows user privileges to "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" by exploiting a race condition in the Elefant Update Service during the repair or update process. When using the repair function, the service queries the server for a list of files and their hashes. In addition, instructions to execute binaries to finalize the repair process are included. The executables are executed as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" after they are copied over to the user writable installation folder (C:\Elefant1). This means that a user can overwrite either "PostESUUpdate.exe" or "Update_OpenJava.exe" in the time frame after the copy and before the execution of the final repair step. The overwritten executable is then executed as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM".

Severity

7.0 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-50592 (GCVE-0-2024-50592)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-08 12:15 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:28

Title

Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition

Summary

Severity

7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-08 15:59 UTC

CWE

CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Assigner

SEC-VLab CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 22 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://r.sec-consult.com/hasomed	third-party-advisory
https://hasomed.de/produkte/elefant/	patch
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/3

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
HASOMED	Elefant Software Updater	Affected: <1.4.2.1811 (custom)
hasomed	elefant_software_updater	Affected: 0 , < 1.4.2.1811 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:hasomed:elefant_software_updater::::::::

Credits

Tobias Niemann, SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Daniel Hirschberger, SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Florian Stuhlmann, SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab

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