A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Vectra Cognito Brain and Cognito Sensor up to 4.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Management Console. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Management Console in Vectra Networks Cognito Brain and Sensor before 4.3 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

The bug was discovered 09/05/2018. The weakness was shared 09/21/2018 by Julien Egloff and Thibault Guittet with Synacktiv as Management Console Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (post authentication) as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vectra.ai. The vendor cooperated in the coordination of the public release. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-14891 since 08/03/2018. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 16 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 4.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries 124362 and 124363 are related to this item.

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• Cognito Brain
• Cognito Sensor

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