Authenticated privilege escalation via unchecked command authorization
Published Dec 15, 2023 · Updated Aug 2, 2024
Missing authorization in SmartStar Software CWS Web-Base 10.25 allows remote authenticated users to execute administrator commands. The command interface fails to enforce administrator authorization before accepting privileged operations from normal user accounts. A normal account is sufficient to perform arbitrary system operations or interrupt the service; the precise commands and affected code are undisclosed.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in SmartStar Software CWS Web-Base 10.25 allows remote authenticated users to execute administrator commands. The command interface fails to enforce administrator authorization before accepting privileged operations from normal user accounts. A normal account is sufficient to perform arbitrary system operations or interrupt the service; the precise commands and affected code are undisclosed.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-48375
- Published
- Dec 15, 2023
- Updated
- Aug 2, 2024
- Vendor
- SmartStar Software
- Product
- CWS Web-Base
- Classifications
- CWE-862, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 15, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 2, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=v10.25
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