CVE-2020-36161 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas APTARE 10.4 before 10.4P9 and 10.5 before 10.5P3. By default on Windows systems users can create directories under C:. A low privileged user can create a directory at the configuration file locations. When the Windows system restarts a malicious OpenSSL engine could exploit arbitrary code execution as SYSTEM. This gives the attacker administrator access on the system allowing the attacker (by default) to access all data access all installed applications etc.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS20-009

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8