Zabbix up to 5.0.42/6.0.30/6.4.15/7.0.0rc2 Agent Application permissions

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Zabbix up to 5.0.42/6.0.30/6.4.15/7.0.0rc2 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Agent Application. The manipulation results in permissions. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-22121. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Zabbix up to 5.0.42/6.0.30/6.4.15/7.0.0rc2. Affected is an unknown code of the component Agent Application. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permissions vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-281. The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended. This is going to have an impact on integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A non-admin user can change or remove important features within the Zabbix Agent application, thus impacting the integrity and availability of the application.

The advisory is shared for download at support.zabbix.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-22121 since 01/05/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 239993 (TencentOS Server 4: zabbix (TSSA-2024:1129)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (239993). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Network Management Software

Name

• Zabbix

Version

• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.0.3
• 5.0.4
• 5.0.5
• 5.0.6
• 5.0.7
• 5.0.8
• 5.0.9
• 5.0.10
• 5.0.11
• 5.0.12
• 5.0.13
• 5.0.14
• 5.0.15
• 5.0.16
• 5.0.17
• 5.0.18
• 5.0.19
• 5.0.20
• 5.0.21
• 5.0.22
• 5.0.23
• 5.0.24
• 5.0.25
• 5.0.26
• 5.0.27
• 5.0.28
• 5.0.29
• 5.0.30
• 5.0.31
• 5.0.32
• 5.0.33
• 5.0.34
• 5.0.35
• 5.0.36
• 5.0.37
• 5.0.38
• 5.0.39
• 5.0.40
• 5.0.41
• 5.0.42
• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8
• 6.0.9
• 6.0.10
• 6.0.11
• 6.0.12
• 6.0.13
• 6.0.14
• 6.0.15
• 6.0.16
• 6.0.17
• 6.0.18
• 6.0.19
• 6.0.20
• 6.0.21
• 6.0.22
• 6.0.23
• 6.0.24
• 6.0.25
• 6.0.26
• 6.0.27
• 6.0.28
• 6.0.29
• 6.0.30
• 6.4.0
• 6.4.1
• 6.4.2
• 6.4.3
• 6.4.4
• 6.4.5
• 6.4.6
• 6.4.7
• 6.4.8
• 6.4.9
• 6.4.10
• 6.4.11
• 6.4.12
• 6.4.13
• 6.4.14
• 6.4.15
• 7.0.0rc1
• 7.0.0rc2

License

• open-source

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