CVE-2023-0978 Command injection in Trellix Intelligent Sandbox

Medium 6.4 Published Updated

A local attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands via crafted CLI arguments in Trellix Intelligent Sandbox due to insufficient input validation.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-0978?

CVE-2023-0978 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Trellix Intelligent Sandbox, published on 13 Mar 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A command injection vulnerability in Trellix Intelligent Sandbox CLI for version 5.2 and earlier, allows a local user to inject and execute arbitrary operating system commands using specially crafted strings. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments that are passed to specific CLI command. The vulnerability allows the attack

Weakness: CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0978?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mcafee Advanced Threat Defense, Trellix Intelligent Sandbox.

How do I fix CVE-2023-0978?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-0978 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2023-0978 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-0978 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-xvgp-q85q-wcrm.

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