CVE-2024-40872 Elevation of privilege in Absolute Secure Access clients and servers
Local attackers with valid credentials can elevate privileges to system level by manipulating process tokens in Absolute Secure Access components.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-40872?
CVE-2024-40872 is a high-severity vulnerability in Absolute Security Secure Access, published on 25 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-822
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-40872?
How do I fix CVE-2024-40872?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-40872 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-40872 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40872 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3gx2-67xw-9fc9.