CVE-2024-22042

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Feb 13, 2024
Updated
Apr 10, 2025
Reserved
Jan 4, 2024

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Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Unicam FX (All versions). The windows installer agent used in affected product contains incorrect use of privileged APIs that trigger the Windows Console Host (conhost.exe) as a child process with SYSTEM privileges. This could be exploited by an attacker to perform a local privilege escalation attack.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:U/RC:Csiemens

Weaknesses

  • CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Unicam FXSiemens
  • all versionsAffected

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