CVE-2024-40872CWE-822

Elevation of privilege in Absolute Secure Access clients and servers

High · published July 25, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

There is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in server

and client components of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.07.

Attackers with local access and valid desktop user credentials can elevate

their privilege to system level by passing invalid address data to the vulnerable

component. This could be used to

manipulate process tokens to elevate the privilege of a normal process to

System. The scope is changed, the impact to system confidentiality and

integrity is high, the impact to the availability of the effected component is

none.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00156 · 4.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-822 · Untrusted Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-07-25T17:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUL 17:00Z
    Elevation of privilege in Absolute Secure Access clients and servers
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