A vulnerability has been identified in TIA Administrator (All versions < V3.0.6). The affected application allows low-privileged users to trigger installations by overwriting cache files and modifying the downloads path. This would allow an attacker to escalate privilege and exceute arbitrary code.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: