Authenticated elevation to administrator
Published Apr 29, 2022 · Updated Sep 17, 2024
Improper privilege management in Johnson Controls Metasys ADS/ADX/OAS 10 and 11 allows remote authenticated users to become administrators. Johnson Controls has not disclosed the affected privilege-management locus or the operation that incorrectly grants the Administrator role. Exploitation requires an authenticated network session and grants administrative control over the affected building-automation server.
Summary
What happened
Improper privilege management in Johnson Controls Metasys ADS/ADX/OAS 10 and 11 allows remote authenticated users to become administrators. Johnson Controls has not disclosed the affected privilege-management locus or the operation that incorrectly grants the Administrator role. Exploitation requires an authenticated network session and grants administrative control over the affected building-automation server.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-36207
- Published
- Apr 29, 2022
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Vendor
- Johnson Controls
- Product
- Metasys
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 29, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 17, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=All 10 versions <10.1.5
- Affected versionversion=All 11 versions <11.0.2
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