CVE-2023-37244 (GCVE-0-2023-37244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-02 13:21 – Updated: 2024-08-02 17:09
VLAI
Title
Privilege escalation in N-Able's AutomationManagerAgent
Summary
The affected AutomationManager.AgentService.exe application contains a TOCTOU race condition vulnerability that allows standard users to create a pseudo-symlink at C:\ProgramData\N-Able Technologies\AutomationManager\Temp, which could be leveraged by an attacker to manipulate the process into performing arbitrary file deletions. We recommend upgrading to version 2.91.0.0
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-02 20:03 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
N-Able AutomationManagerAgent Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.80.0.1 (semver)
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n-able automation_manager_agent Affected: - , < 2.91.0.0 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:n-able:automation_manager_agent:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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