CVE-2024-40872

Elevation of privilege in Absolute Secure Access clients and servers

State
Published
Severity
8.4 High
Published
Jul 25, 2024
Updated
Aug 2, 2024
Reserved
Jul 10, 2024

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Description

There is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in server and client components of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.07. Attackers with local access and valid desktop user credentials can elevate their privilege to system level by passing invalid address data to the vulnerable component. This could be used to manipulate process tokens to elevate the privilege of a normal process to System. The scope is changed, the impact to system confidentiality and integrity is high, the impact to the availability of the effected component is none.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NAbsolute

Weaknesses

  • CWE-822 Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Secure AccessAbsolute Security
  • before 13.07Affected

References

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