ArcSight Management Center up to 2.80 Access Control access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ArcSight Management Center up to 2.80. It has been rated as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Access Control. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2018-6501. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in ArcSight Management Center up to 2.80. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component Access Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Potential security vulnerability of Insufficient Access Controls has been identified in ArcSight Management Center (ArcMC) for versions prior to 2.81. This vulnerability could be exploited to allow for insufficient access controls.

The bug was discovered 09/19/2018. The weakness was disclosed 09/20/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-6501 since 01/31/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 2.81 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-124326, VDB-124328, VDB-124329 and VDB-124330 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• ArcSight

Name

• Management Center

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44
• 2.45
• 2.46
• 2.47
• 2.48
• 2.49
• 2.50
• 2.51
• 2.52
• 2.53
• 2.54
• 2.55
• 2.56
• 2.57
• 2.58
• 2.59
• 2.60
• 2.61
• 2.62
• 2.63
• 2.64
• 2.65
• 2.66
• 2.67
• 2.68
• 2.69
• 2.70
• 2.71
• 2.72
• 2.73
• 2.74
• 2.75
• 2.76
• 2.77
• 2.78
• 2.79
• 2.80

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