CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-36398

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Published: Aug 13, 2024 | Modified: Aug 14, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC NMS (All versions < V3.0). The affected application executes a subset of its services as NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM. This could allow a local attacker to execute operating system commands with elevated privileges.

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
Sinec_nms Siemens * 3.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References