CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-6105

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Nov 15, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in multiple ManageEngine products that can result in encryption keys being exposed. A low-privileged OS user with access to the host where an affected ManageEngine product is installed can view and use the exposed key to decrypt product database passwords. This allows the user to access the ManageEngine product database.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Manageengine_analytics_plus Zohocorp * 5.3 (excluding)
Manageengine_appcreator Zohocorp * 2.0.0 (excluding)
Manageengine_application_control_plus Zohocorp * 11.2.2328.01 (excluding)
Manageengine_browser_security_plus Zohocorp * 11.2.2328.01 (excluding)
Manageengine_device_control_plus Zohocorp * 11.2.2328.01 (excluding)
Manageengine_endpoint_central Zohocorp * 11.2.2322.01 (excluding)
Manageengine_endpoint_central_msp Zohocorp * 11.2.2322.01 (excluding)
Manageengine_endpoint_dlp_plus Zohocorp * 11.2.2328.01 (excluding)
Manageengine_mobile_device_manager_plus Zohocorp * 10.1.2204.2 (excluding)
Manageengine_mobile_device_manager_plus Zohocorp 10.1.2207.4 (including) 10.1.2207.4 (including)
Manageengine_os_deployer Zohocorp * 1.2.2331.1 (excluding)
Manageengine_patch_manager_plus Zohocorp * 11.2.2328.01 (excluding)
Manageengine_remote_access_plus Zohocorp * 11.2.2328.01 (excluding)
Manageengine_remote_monitoring_and_management Zohocorp * 10.2.11 (excluding)
Manageengine_vulnerability_manager_plus Zohocorp * 11.2.2328.01 (excluding)

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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