CVE-2024-8306: Improper Privilege Management in Workstation Binaries
CVE-2024-8306 Published on September 11, 2024
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists that could cause unauthorized access, loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability of the workstation when non-admin authenticated user tries to perform privilege escalation by tampering with the binaries.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-8306 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Privilege Management
The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-8306
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Affected Versions
Schneider Electric Vijeo Designer:- Version Prior to V6.3 SP1 is affected.
- Version All Versions is affected.
- Before 6.3 SP1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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