CVE-2024-36495

Read/Write Permissions for Everyone on Configuration File

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Jun 24, 2024
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: May 29, 2024

Description

The application Faronics WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise) saves its configuration in an encrypted file on the file system which "Everyone" has read and write access to, path to file:

C:\ProgramData\WINSelect\WINSelect.wsd

The path for the affected WINSelect Enterprise configuration file is:

C:\ProgramData\Faronics\StorageSpace\WS\WINSelect.wsd

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise)Faronics	8.30.xx.903Not affected

References

https://r.sec-consult.com/winselectthird-party-advisory
https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/winselect-standard-release-notesrelease-notes
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jun/12

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