CVE-2020-27869

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Feb 11, 2021
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Oct 27, 2020

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 2020 HF1, NPM: 2020.2. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the WriteToFile method. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it to construct SQL queries. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and reset the password for the Admin user. Was ZDI-CAN-11804.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	8.8 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	zdi

Weaknesses

CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Network Performance MonitorSolarWinds	2020 HF1, NPM: 2020.2Affected

References

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-064/

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