Vectra Cognito Brain/Cognito Sensor up to 4.2 Management Console access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Vectra Cognito Brain and Cognito Sensor up to 4.2. This impacts an unknown function of the component Management Console. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-14891. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

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 VDB-124362 and VDB-124363 are related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Cognito Brain/Cognito Sensor 4.3

Timelineinfo

08/03/2018 🔍
09/05/2018 +33 days 🔍
09/21/2018 +15 days 🔍
09/21/2018 +0 days 🔍
09/22/2018 +1 days 🔍
03/26/2020 +551 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Management Console Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (post authentication)
Researcher: Julien Egloff, Thibault Guittet
Organization: Synacktiv
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2018-14891 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-14891
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-124364
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/22/2018 07:33
Updated: 03/26/2020 13:50
Changes: 09/22/2018 07:33 (64), 03/26/2020 13:50 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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