Rockwell FactoryTalk Activation Manager < 4.01.00 Privilege Escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 189286

Synopsis

An application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of Rockwell FactoryTalk Activation Manager installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 4.01.00. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability.

- Without quotation marks, any whitespace in the file path remains ambiguous, which may allow an attacker to link to or run a malicious executable. This may allow an authorized, but not privileged local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the system.
(CVE-2017-6015)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Rockwell FactoryTalk Activation Manager version 4.01.00 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189286

File Name: rockwell_factorytalk_activation_manager_4_01_00.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: SCADA

Published: 1/22/2024

Updated: 1/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-6015

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:rockwellautomation:factorytalk_activation

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Rockwell FactoryTalk Activation Manager

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6015

ICSA: 17-047-02

Detections

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