CVE-2020-15145

Local privilege elevation in Composer-Setup for Windows

State
Published
Severity
6.7 Medium
Published
Aug 14, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Jun 25, 2020

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Description

In Composer-Setup for Windows before version 6.0.0, if the developer's computer is shared with other users, a local attacker may be able to exploit the following scenarios. 1. A local regular user may modify the existing `C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\composer.bat` in order to get elevated command execution when composer is run by an administrator. 2. A local regular user may create a specially crafted dll in the `C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin` folder in order to get Local System privileges. See: https://itm4n.github.io/windows-server-netman-dll-hijacking. 3. If the directory of the php.exe selected by the user is not in the system path, it is added without checking that it is admin secured, as per Microsoft guidelines. See: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
windows-setupcomposer
  • < 6.0.0Affected

References

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