CVE-2024-51448 (GCVE-0-2024-51448)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-18 15:08
Modified
2025-01-21 20:58
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-277 - Insecure Inherited Permissions
Summary
IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0 through 21.0.7.17 and 23.0.0 through 23.0.18 could allow a local user to escalate their privileges. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Robotic Process Automation Version: 21.0.0   ≤ 21.0.7.17
Version: 23.0.0   ≤ 23.0.18
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:robotic_process_automation:21.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:robotic_process_automation:21.0.7.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:robotic_process_automation:23.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:robotic_process_automation:23.0.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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