CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-50590

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-11-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2024-11-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-250, CWE-276, CWE-732

Description

Attackers with local access to the medical office computer can escalate their Windows user privileges to "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" by overwriting one of two Elefant service binaries with weak permissions. The default installation directory of Elefant is "C:\Elefant1" which is writable for all users. In addition, the Elefant installer registers two Firebird database services which are running as “NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM”.  Path: C:\Elefant1\Firebird_2\bin\fbserver.exe Path: C:\Elefant1\Firebird_2\bin\fbguard.exe Both service binaries are user writable. This means that a local attacker can rename one of the service binaries, replace the service executable with a new executable, and then restart the system. Once the system has rebooted, the new service binary is executed as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM".

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References