CVE-2024-8785

WhatsUp Gold Registry Overwrite Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Dec 2, 2024
Updated: Dec 2, 2024
Reserved: Sep 13, 2024

Description

In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2024.0.1, a remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage NmAPI.exe to create or change an existing registry value in registry path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Ipswitch\.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ProgressSoftware

Weaknesses

CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WhatsUp GoldProgress Software Corporation	2023.1.0 to before 2024.0.1Affected

References

https://www.progress.com/network-monitoring
https://community.progress.com/s/article/WhatsUp-Gold-Security-Bulletin-September-2024vendor-advisory
https://docs.progress.com/bundle/whatsupgold-release-notes-24-0/page/WhatsUp-Gold-2024.0-Release-Notes.htmlrelease-notes

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