Dell EMC NetWorker Privilege Escalation (DSA-2022-194)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164632

Synopsis

The remote Windows host has an application installed that is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The version of Dell EMC NetWorker installed on the remote Windows host is 19.2.1.x, 19.3.x, 19.4.x 19.5.x 19.6.x prior to 19.6.1.2 or 19.7.0.0. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, non-administrative attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain access to restricted resources.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Dell EMC NetWorker 19.6.1.2 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?71b70b48

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164632

File Name: emc_networker_DSA-2022-194.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 9/2/2022

Updated: 12/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34368

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:dell:emc_networker

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/EMC NetWorker

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34368

IAVA: 2022-A-0348-S