SB2024091938 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45769)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A local user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

2) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45770)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue within the pmpost tool, which runs under certain circumstances with elevated privileges. A local user can create a specially crafted symbolic link to a critical file on the system and overwrite it with privileges of the application.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in privilege escalation.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45769
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310452
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45770
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310451