CVE-2023-38041 (GCVE-0-2023-38041)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-25 00:24
Modified
2025-03-07 18:23
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A logged in user may elevate its permissions by abusing a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition. When a particular process flow is initiated, an attacker can exploit this condition to gain unauthorized elevated privileges on the affected system.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Ivanti Secure Access Client Version: 22.6R1   ≤
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