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ghsa-hhg2-f289-m44w

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:51

Modified

2025-10-22 00:31

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Kaseya VSA RMM before R9.3 9.3.0.35, R9.4 before 9.4.0.36, and R9.5 before 9.5.0.5 allows unprivileged remote attackers to execute PowerShell payloads on all managed devices. In January 2018, attackers actively exploited this vulnerability in the wild.

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CVE-2018-20753 (GCVE-0-2018-20753)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-02-05 05:00

Modified

2025-10-21 23:45

Severity ?

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

CWE

n/a

Summary

Kaseya VSA RMM before R9.3 9.3.0.35, R9.4 before 9.4.0.36, and R9.5 before 9.5.0.5 allows unprivileged remote attackers to execute PowerShell payloads on all managed devices. In January 2018, attackers actively exploited this vulnerability in the wild.

References

URL

Tags

	https://blog.huntresslabs.com/deep-dive-kaseya-vsa-mining-payload-c0ac839a0e88	x_refsource_MISC
	https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360000333152	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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