CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-51448

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2025-01-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-01-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-277, CWE-732

Description

IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0 through 21.0.7.17 and 23.0.0 through 23.0.18 could allow a local user to escalate their privileges. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege.

Affected configurations

• ibm robotic process automation (>= 21.0.0 <= 21.0.7.17) • ibm robotic process automation (>= 23.0.0 <= 23.0.18)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-277 Insecure Inherited Permissions weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References