Authenticated XCC privilege escalation through SSO authorization failure
Published Jan 14, 2025 · Updated Jan 15, 2025
Privilege escalation in Lenovo XClarity Administrator before 4.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain elevated XCC permissions. Lenovo has not disclosed the precise token, transport, or authorization operation that fails when LXCA supplies an SSO identity to a connected XClarity Controller. Reachability requires a valid LXCA account, a connected XCC instance, and LXCA configured as that instance's SSO provider; the result is unauthorized access to XCC data and functions.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Lenovo XClarity Administrator before 4.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain elevated XCC permissions. Lenovo has not disclosed the precise token, transport, or authorization operation that fails when LXCA supplies an SSO identity to a connected XClarity Controller. Reachability requires a valid LXCA account, a connected XCC instance, and LXCA configured as that instance's SSO provider; the result is unauthorized access to XCC data and functions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-45102
- Published
- Jan 14, 2025
- Updated
- Jan 15, 2025
- Vendor
- Lenovo
- Product
- XClarity Administrator
- Classifications
- CWE-319, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 14, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 15, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <4.1
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