CVE-2020-11552

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus before build 6003 because it does not properly enforce user privileges associated with a Certificate dialog. This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to escalate privileges on a Windows host. An attacker does not require any privilege on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. One option is the self-service option on the Windows login screen. Upon selecting this option, the thick-client software is launched, which connects to a remote ADSelfService Plus server to facilitate self-service operations. An unauthenticated attacker having physical access to the host could trigger a security alert by supplying a self-signed SSL certificate to the client. The View Certificate option from the security alert allows an attacker to export a displayed certificate to a file. This can further cascade to a dialog that can open Explorer as SYSTEM. By navigating from Explorer to \windows\system32, cmd.exe can be launched as a SYSTEM.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2020-11552

• Assigner
• cve@mitre.org

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2020-08-11T16:15:12

• Last Modified Date
• 2020-08-13T20:08:21

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access Vector
• NETWORK

• Access Compatibility
• LOW

• Authentication
• NONE

• Confidentiality Impact
• COMPLETE

• Integrity Impact
• COMPLETE

• Availability Impact
• COMPLETE

• Base Score
• 10

• Severity
• HIGH

• Exploitability Score
• 10

• Impact Score
• 10

• Version
• 3.1

• Vector String
• CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack Vector
• NETWORK

• Attack Compatibility
• LOW

• Privileges Required
• NONE

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• HIGH

• Base Score
• 9.8

• Base Severity
• CRITICAL

• Exploitability Score
• 3.9

• Impact Score
• 5.9