Net Monitor for Employees Pro up to 5.3.4 Security Feature program.exe access control

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Net Monitor for Employees Pro up to 5.3.4. This affects an unknown function of the file program.exe of the component Security Feature. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2017-7180. The attack must be initiated from a local position. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Net Monitor for Employees Pro up to 5.3.4. This affects an unknown code of the file program.exe of the component Security Feature. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Net Monitor for Employees Pro through 5.3.4 has an unquoted service path, which allows a Security Feature Bypass of its documented "Block applications" design goal. The local attacker must have privileges to write to program.exe in a protected directory, such as the %SYSTEMDRIVE% directory, and thus the issue is not interpreted as a direct privilege escalation. However, the local attacker might have the goal of executing program.exe even though program.exe is a blocked application.

The bug was discovered 06/08/2017. The weakness was shared 06/08/2017 as EDB-ID 42141 as not defined exploit (Exploit-DB). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-7180 since 03/18/2017. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (42141). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Net Monitor for Employees Pro

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• 5.3.0
• 5.3.1
• 5.3.2
• 5.3.3
• 5.3.4

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