A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in LANDesk Management Suite 2016.4/2017.x. Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-275. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In LANDESK Management Suite 2016.4 and 2017.x, an Unrestricted Direct Object Reference leads to referencing/updating objects belonging to other users. In other words, a normal user can send requests to a specific URI with the target user's username in an HTTP payload in order to retrieve a key/token and use it to access/update objects belonging to other users. Such objects could be user profiles, tickets, incidents, etc.

The bug was discovered 07/19/2017. The weakness was released 12/11/2017 (Website). The advisory is available at gist.github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-11463 since 07/19/2017. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Required for exploitation is a authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1222 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 145 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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