SteelCentral Aternity Agent 11.0.0.120 on Windows mishandles IPC. It uses an executable running as a high privileged Windows service to perform administrative tasks and collect data from other processes. It distributes functionality among different processes and uses IPC (Inter-Process Communication) primitives to enable the processes to cooperate. Any user in the system is allowed to access the interprocess communication channel AternityAgentAssistantIpc, retrieve a serialized object and call object methods remotely. Among others, the methods allow any user to: (1) Create and/or overwrite arbitrary XML files across the system; (2) Create arbitrary directories across the system; and (3) Load arbitrary plugins (i.e., C# assemblies) from the "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)/Aternity Information Systems/Assistant/plugins” directory and execute code contained in them.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-07-27T13:36:02

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:22:30.152Z

Reserved: 2020-07-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-15593

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-07-27T14:15:12.460

Modified: 2021-07-21T11:39:23.747

Link: CVE-2020-15593

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