CVE-2021-27766

HCL BigFix Platform Client is affected by a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: May 6, 2022
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Feb 26, 2021

Description

The BigFix Client installer is created with InstallShield, which was affected by CVE-2021-41526, a vulnerability that could allow a local user to perform a privilege escalation. This vulnerability was resolved by updating to an InstallShield version with the underlying vulnerability fixed.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N	HCL

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
BigFix PlatformHCL Software	9.5 - 9.5.18, 10 - 10.0.5Affected

References

https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0098116
https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/2022/MNDT-2022-0024/MNDT-2022-0024.md

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