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CVE-2024-40872

HIGH
Published 2024-07-25T17:00:38.151Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
8.4
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.000
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.0% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.078
Higher than 7.8% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Absolute Security

Secure Access

Affected Versions:

0
absolute

secure_access

Affected Versions:

0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-3gx2-67xw-9fc9

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40872
WEB https://www.absolute.com/platform/security-information/vulnerability-archive/secure-access-1307/cve-2024-40872

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: July 25, 2024, Modified: July 25, 2024

References

https://www.absolute.com/platform/security-information/vulnerability-archive/secure-access-1307/cve-2024-40872/
Published: 2024-07-25T17:00:38.151Z
Last Modified: 2024-08-02T04:39:55.376Z
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