SB20240827155 - Multiple vulnerabilities in QRadar Manager for YARA and SIGMA Rules App
Published: August 27, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB20240827155
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-35195)
The vulnerability allows a local user to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to the session object does not verify requests after making first request with verify=False. A local administrator can bypass authentication.
2) Privilege escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5195)
The vulnerability allows a local user to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.The weakness is due to race condition in the kernel memory subsystem in the management of copy-on-write operations on read-only memory mappings that lets attackers to overwrite kernel memory and gain kernel-level privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in gaining of root privileges on the vulnerable system.
Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.