Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator up to 5.10 SP1 Update 1 hard-coded credentials

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A vulnerability was found in Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator up to 5.10 SP1 Update 1. It has been classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation causes hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-4844. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

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A vulnerability has been found in Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator up to 5.10 SP1 Update 1 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Hardcoded credentials vulnerability in Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) on Premise prior to 5.10 Service Pack 1 Update 2 allows an attacker with admin privileges on the ePO server to read the contents of the orion.keystore file, allowing them to access the ePO database encryption key. This was possible through using a hard coded password for the keystore. Access Control restrictions on the file mean this would not be exploitable unless the user is the system admin for the server that ePO is running on.

The advisory is shared at thrive.trellix.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-4844 since 05/13/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1110.001 for this issue.

Applying the patch 5.10 SP1 Update 2 is able to eliminate this problem.

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• Endpoint Management Software

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• Trellix

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• ePolicy Orchestrator

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• 5.10 SP1 Update 1

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• commercial

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