SteelCentral Aternity Agent 11.0.0.120 on Windows Inter-Process Communication permission assignment

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in SteelCentral Aternity Agent 11.0.0.120 on Windows. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Inter-Process Communication. Executing a manipulation can lead to permission assignment. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2020-15593. The attack is restricted to local execution. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in SteelCentral Aternity Agent 11.0.0.120 on Windows. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component Inter-Process Communication. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-732. The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SteelCentral Aternity Agent 11.0.0.120 on Windows mishandles IPC. It uses an executable running as a high privileged Windows service to perform administrative tasks and collect data from other processes. It distributes functionality among different processes and uses IPC (Inter-Process Communication) primitives to enable the processes to cooperate. Any user in the system is allowed to access the interprocess communication channel AternityAgentAssistantIpc, retrieve a serialized object and call object methods remotely. Among others, the methods allow any user to: (1) Create and/or overwrite arbitrary XML files across the system; (2) Create arbitrary directories across the system; and (3) Load arbitrary plugins (i.e., C# assemblies) from the "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)/Aternity Information Systems/Assistant/plugins� directory and execute code contained in them.

The weakness was disclosed 07/27/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at aternity.force.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-15593 since 07/07/2020. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

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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• SteelCentral

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• Aternity Agent

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• 11.0.0.120

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