Cisco Meraki Systems Manager Agent up to 4.1.5 on Windows uncontrolled search path

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco Meraki Systems Manager Agent on Windows. Affected is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-20430. The attack is restricted to local execution. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Meraki Systems Manager Agent on Windows. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (SM) Agent for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.  This vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of directory search paths at runtime. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability by placing both malicious configuration files and malicious DLL files on an affected system, which would read and execute the files when Cisco Meraki SM launches on startup. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system with SYSTEM privileges. 

The advisory is available at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-20430 since 11/08/2023. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/12/2024). This vulnerability is assigned to T1574 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Meraki Systems Manager Agent

Version

• 1.0.98
• 1.0.99
• 2.0.0
• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 3.1.3
• 3.1.4
• 3.5.2
• 3.6.0
• 3.7.0
• 3.7.1
• 3.7.2
• 3.8.2
• 4.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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