BlackBerry SecuSUITE up to 5.0.420 Configuration File unnecessary privileges

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A vulnerability has been found in BlackBerry SecuSUITE up to 5.0.420 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Configuration File Handler. The manipulation leads to unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-51722. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in BlackBerry SecuSUITE up to 5.0.420 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Configuration File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the SecuSUITE Server (System Configuration) of SecuSUITE versions 5.0.420 and earlier could allow a successful attacker that had gained control of code running under one of the system accounts listed in the configuration file to potentially issue privileged script commands.

The advisory is shared at support.blackberry.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-51722 since 10/30/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/12/2024). 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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• BlackBerry

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• SecuSUITE

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• 5.0.420

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• commercial

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