Local privilege escalation
Published Feb 16, 2022 · Updated Sep 16, 2024
Privilege escalation in Snow Software Snow Inventory Java Scanner 1.0 allows local users to execute code with elevated privileges. Snow Software has not published the affected component or the operation that mishandles attacker-controlled input. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access and no user interaction, and successful abuse executes code in the scanner's higher-privilege context.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Snow Software Snow Inventory Java Scanner 1.0 allows local users to execute code with elevated privileges. Snow Software has not published the affected component or the operation that mishandles attacker-controlled input. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access and no user interaction, and successful abuse executes code in the scanner's higher-privilege context.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-4106
- Published
- Feb 16, 2022
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Vendor
- Snow Software
- Product
- Snow Inventory Java Scanner
- Classifications
- CWE-691, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 16, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 16, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.0 0
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