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ghsa-66p4-7q93-93fg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:47

Modified

2022-06-29 00:00

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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cve-2021-28098

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-04-14 14:56

Modified

2024-08-03 21:33

Severity ?

Summary

References

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	https://docs.forescout.com	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.adversis.io/research/2021/3/30/forescout-secure-connector-local-privilege-escalation	x_refsource_MISC
	https://jordanpotti.com/2021/03/30/forescout-priv-esc-folder-permissions/	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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