CVE-2024-2658

Local privilege escalation in FlexNet Publisher

State: Published
Severity: 8.5 High
Published: Jan 30, 2025
Updated: Jan 30, 2025
Reserved: Mar 19, 2024

Description

A misconfiguration in lmadmin.exe of FlexNet Publisher versions prior to 2024 R1 (11.19.6.0) allows the OpenSSL configuration file to load from a non-existent directory. An unauthorized, locally authenticated user with low privileges can potentially create the directory and load a specially crafted openssl.conf file leading to the execution of a malicious DLL (Dynamic-Link Library) with elevated privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.5 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	flexera

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FlexNet PublisherFlexera	before 2024 R1 (11.19.6.0)Affected

References

https://community.flexera.com/s/article/cve-2024-2658-flexnet-publisher-potential-local-privilege-escalation-issuevendor-advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-359/third-party-advisory

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