Improper Privilege Management in SpamTitan - CVE-2020-24045
Published: September 17, 2020 / Updated: January 4, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU49245
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24045
CWE-ID: CWE-269
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: TitanHQ
Affected software:
SpamTitan
SpamTitan
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote administrator to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management. A remote administrator can bypass sandbox restrictions by presenting a fake vmware-tools ISO image to the guest virtual machine running SpamTitan Gateway. The fake ISO image will be mounted and the script wmware-install.pl will be executed with super-user privileges as soon as the hidden option to install VMware Tools is selected in the main menu of the restricted shell (option number 5).
How to mitigate CVE-2020-24045
Install updates from vendor's website.