CVE-2024-4454

WithSecure Elements Vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation

 

Status

Fixed

Risk level

Medium

Action required

FIX No User action is required. The required fix has been published through automatic update channel with USS-Win32/2024-04-29_01

Affected products

All WithSecure Endpoint Protection products for Windows

WithSecure Client Security 15 onwards

WithSecure Server Security 15 onwards

WithSecure Email and Server Security 15

WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection 17 onwards

Platforms

All supported platforms for the affected products

Date issued

2024-05-22

More information

A vulnerability in the WithSecure Windows endpoint product allows a malicious attacker to abuse the service to create an arbitrary file in the system. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to perform local privilege escalation.

Note: An attacker must have administrator privilege prior to exploiting this vulnerability or an attacker convince/ trick a user with
Administrative privileges to perform an action in order to exploit this vulnerability

This issue was reported to WithSecure through the Vulnerability Reward Program. No known exploit or attack has been seen in the wild.

Contributors

WithSecure would like to thank following person for bringing this issue to our attention.

Nicholas Zubrisky (@NZubrisky) and Michael DePlante (@izobashi)

of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team