Windows Local Privilege Escalation via TOCTOU Race
CVE-2023-38041 Published on October 25, 2023
A logged in user may elevate its permissions by abusing a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition. When a particular process flow is initiated, an attacker can exploit this condition to gain unauthorized elevated privileges on the affected system.
Weakness Type
What is a TOCTTOU Vulnerability?
The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state. This weakness can be security-relevant when an attacker can influence the state of the resource between check and use. This can happen with shared resources such as files, memory, or even variables in multithreaded programs.
CVE-2023-38041 has been classified to as a TOCTTOU vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-38041
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Affected Versions
Ivanti Secure Access Client:- Version 22.6R1 and below 22.6R1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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