CVE-2021-28098

An issue was discovered in Forescout CounterACT before 8.1.4

published April 14, 2021

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
34.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Forescout CounterACT before 8.1.4. A local privilege escalation vulnerability is present in the logging function. SecureConnector runs with administrative privileges and writes logs entries to a file in %PROGRAMDATA%\ForeScout SecureConnector\ that has full permissions for the Everyone group. Using a symbolic link allows an attacker to point the log file to a privileged location such as %WINDIR%\System32. The resulting log file adopts the file permissions of the source of the symbolic link (in this case, the Everyone group). The log file in System32 can be replaced and renamed with a malicious DLL for DLL hijacking.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00410 · 34.1th percentile
Published
2021-04-14T14:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 APR 14:56Z
    An issue was discovered in Forescout CounterACT before 8.1.4
    cvelistv5