AMD Management Console up to 9.x default permission

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in AMD Management Console up to 9.x. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to default permission. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-21957. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in AMD Management Console up to 9.x and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a default permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-276. During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Incorrect default permissions in the AMD Management Console installation directory could allow an attacker to achieve privilege escalation potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

The advisory is available at amd.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-21957 since 01/03/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1222 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 10.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• AMD

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• Management Console

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• 9.x

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• commercial

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