CVE-2024-38499 (GCVE-0-2024-38499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-17 05:43 – Updated: 2024-12-19 06:03
VLAI
Title
Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability in CA Client Automation 14.5
Summary
CA Client Automation (ITCM) allows non-admin/non-root users to encrypt a string using CAF CLI and SD_ACMD CLI. This would allow the non admin user to access the critical encryption keys which further causes the exploitation of stored credentials. This fix doesn't allow a non-admin/non-root user to execute "caf encrypt"/"sd_acmd encrypt" commands.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-17 14:42 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2024-12-17 05:36
Credits
Matthias Deeg (e-mail: matthias.deeg@syss.de, Twitter/X: @matthiasdeeg)
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