An attacker with local access the to medical office computer can escalate his Windows user privileges to "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" by exploiting a command injection vulnerability in the Elefant Update Service. The command injection can be exploited by communicating with the Elefant Update Service which is running as "SYSTEM" via Windows Named Pipes.The Elefant Software Updater (ESU) consists of two components. An ESU service which runs as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" and an ESU tray client which communicates with the service to update or repair the installation and is running with user permissions. The communication is implemented using named pipes. A crafted message of type "MessageType.SupportServiceInfos" can be sent to the local ESU service to inject commands, which are then executed as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM".
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Hasomed
Hasomed elefant Software Updater
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:hasomed:elefant_software_updater:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Hasomed
Hasomed elefant Software Updater
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description An attacker with local access the to medical office computer can escalate his Windows user privileges to "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" by exploiting a command injection vulnerability in the Elefant Update Service. The command injection can be exploited by communicating with the Elefant Update Service which is running as "SYSTEM" via Windows Named Pipes.The Elefant Software Updater (ESU) consists of two components. An ESU service which runs as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" and an ESU tray client which communicates with the service to update or repair the installation and is running with user permissions. The communication is implemented using named pipes. A crafted message of type "MessageType.SupportServiceInfos" can be sent to the local ESU service to inject commands, which are then executed as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM".
Title Local Privilege Escalation via Command Injection
Weaknesses CWE-77
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: SEC-VLab

Published: 2024-11-08T12:01:18.862Z

Updated: 2024-11-08T15:38:37.109Z

Reserved: 2024-10-25T07:26:12.628Z

Link: CVE-2024-50591

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-11-08T15:36:54.981Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-11-08T12:15:14.933

Modified: 2024-11-08T19:01:03.880

Link: CVE-2024-50591

cve-icon Redhat

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