Teradici PCoIP Standard Agent/Graphics Agent up to 19.11.1 on Windows Named Pipe pcoip_credential_provider privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Teradici PCoIP Standard Agent and Graphics Agent up to 19.11.1 on Windows and classified as critical. This affects the function pcoip_credential_provider of the component Named Pipe Handler. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-13173. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Teradici PCoIP Standard Agent and Graphics Agent up to 19.11.1 on Windows and classified as critical. This issue affects the function pcoip_credential_provider of the component Named Pipe Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Initialization of the pcoip_credential_provider in Teradici PCoIP Standard Agent for Windows and PCoIP Graphics Agent for Windows versions 19.11.1 and earlier creates an insecure named pipe, which allows an attacker to intercept sensitive information or possibly elevate privileges via pre-installing an application which acquires that named pipe.

The weakness was shared 05/28/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at advisory.teradici.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-13173 since 05/19/2020. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

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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• Teradici

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• Graphics Agent
• PCoIP Standard Agent

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• 19.11.0
• 19.11.1

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