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CVE-2023-7169 (GCVE-0-2023-7169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-08 12:59 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:50
VLAI
Title
Impersonate vendor signed Powershell scripts
Summary
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in Snow Software Snow Inventory Agent on Windows allows Signature Spoof.This issue affects Snow Inventory Agent: through 6.14.5. Customers advised to upgrade to version 7.0
Severity
6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-08 17:17 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Snow Software Snow Inventory Agent Affected: 0 , ≤ 6.14.5 (all version)
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Date Public
2024-02-08 12:00
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