Vulnerability · Published Apr 29, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-31776
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Aviatrix VPN Client before 2.14.14 on Windows has an unquoted search path that enables local privilege escalation to the SYSTEM user, if the machine is misconfigured to allow unprivileged users to write to directories that are supposed to be restricted to administrators.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://docs.aviatrix.com/Downloads/samlclient.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://docs.aviatrix.com/HowTos/changelog.html#aviatrix-vpn-client-changelog x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://docs.aviatrix.com/Downloads/samlclient.html#windows-win x_refsource_MISC