CVE-2024-20430

Cisco Meraki Systems Manager Agent for Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity
High 7.3
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.002
10.0th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
Sep 12, 2024
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (SM) Agent for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.  This vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of directory search paths at runtime. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability by placing both malicious configuration files and malicious DLL files on an affected system, which would read and execute the files when Cisco Meraki SM launches on startup. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system with SYSTEM privileges. 

Weakness: CWE-427

Affected products

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Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Cisco · Cisco Meraki Systems Manager Agent
  • cisco · meraki_systems_manager_agent