Vulnerability · Published Jun 10, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-34546
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-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 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 46.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An unauthenticated attacker with physical access to a computer with NetSetMan Pro before 5.0 installed, that has the pre-logon profile switch button within the Windows logon screen enabled, is able to drop to an administrative shell and execute arbitrary commands as SYSTEM via the "save log to file" feature. To accomplish this, the attacker can navigate to cmd.exe.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2021-01.txt x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.secuvera.de x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.netsetman.com x_refsource_MISC
- 20210611 secuvera-SA-2021-01: Privilege Escalation in NetSetMan Pro 4.7.2 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163097/NetSetManPro-4.7.2-Privilege-Escalation.html x_refsource_MISC