CVE-2024-36497 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The decrypted configuration file contains the password in cleartext which is used to configure WINSelect. It can be used to remove the existing restrictions and disable WINSelect entirely.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Faronics	Winselect

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References

Link	Providers
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jun/12
https://r.sec-consult.com/winselect
https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/winselect-standard-release-notes

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: SEC-VLab

Published: 2024-06-24T09:06:03.500Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T17:52:56.098Z

Reserved: 2024-05-29T06:48:49.689Z

Link: CVE-2024-36497

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:37:05.236Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-06-24T09:15:09.973

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:22:17.510

Link: CVE-2024-36497

Redhat

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