This privilege escalation vulnerability, if exploited, cloud allow a local OS-authenticated user with standard privileges to escalate to System privilege on the machine where these products are installed, resulting in complete compromise of the target machine.
Weakness
The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batch_management | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Batch_management | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Batch_management | Aveva | 2020-sp1 (including) | 2020-sp1 (including) |
| Communication_drivers | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Communication_drivers | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Communication_drivers | Aveva | 2020-r2 (including) | 2020-r2 (including) |
| Communication_drivers | Aveva | 2020-r2_p01 (including) | 2020-r2_p01 (including) |
| Edge | Aveva | * | 20.1.101 (including) |
| Enterprise_licensing | Aveva | * | 3.7.002 (including) |
| Historian | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Historian | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Historian | Aveva | 2020-r2 (including) | 2020-r2 (including) |
| Historian | Aveva | 2020-r2_p01 (including) | 2020-r2_p01 (including) |
| Intouch | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Intouch | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Intouch | Aveva | 2020-r2 (including) | 2020-r2 (including) |
| Intouch | Aveva | 2020-r2_p01 (including) | 2020-r2_p01 (including) |
| Manufacturing_execution_system | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Manufacturing_execution_system | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Manufacturing_execution_system | Aveva | 2020-p01 (including) | 2020-p01 (including) |
| Mobile_operator | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Mobile_operator | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Mobile_operator | Aveva | 2020-r1 (including) | 2020-r1 (including) |
| Plant_scada | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Plant_scada | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Plant_scada | Aveva | 2020-r2 (including) | 2020-r2 (including) |
| Recipe_management | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Recipe_management | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Recipe_management | Aveva | 2020-update_1_patch_2 (including) | 2020-update_1_patch_2 (including) |
| System_platform | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| System_platform | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| System_platform | Aveva | 2020-r2 (including) | 2020-r2 (including) |
| System_platform | Aveva | 2020-r2_p01 (including) | 2020-r2_p01 (including) |
| Telemetry_server | Aveva | 2020r2 (including) | 2020r2 (including) |
| Telemetry_server | Aveva | 2020r2-sp1 (including) | 2020r2-sp1 (including) |
| Work_tasks | Aveva | * | 2020 (excluding) |
| Work_tasks | Aveva | 2020 (including) | 2020 (including) |
| Work_tasks | Aveva | 2020-update_1 (including) | 2020-update_1 (including) |
| Work_tasks | Aveva | 2020-update_2 (including) | 2020-update_2 (including) |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/104.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/470.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/69.html