Privilege escalation in RSA Security Analytics - CVE-2018-11061
Published: August 21, 2018 / Updated: August 22, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14486
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11061
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated 'Admin' or 'Operator' role attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a template engine configuration error. A remote attacker can inject a template and execute arbitrary commands on the target system with root privileges.
Affected software
RSA Security Analytics
RSA NetWitness
RSA NetWitness
How to mitigate CVE-2018-11061
Update to version 10.6.6.
RSA Security Analytics - update to 10.6.6
RSA NetWitness - update to 11.1.0.2
RSA NetWitness - update to 11.1.0.2