IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent information disclosure

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• ibm qradar wincollect10.0 and later · up to 10.1.7 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ibm). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent

  • 10.0 and later · up to and including 10.1.7affected · semver

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2023-26279IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent improper output encoding
  31Monitor
• CVE-2023-38736IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent privilege escalation
  31Monitor
• CVE-2023-26278IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent privilege escalation
  31Monitor
• CVE-2023-26277IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent privilege escalation
  31Monitor
• CVE-2024-51461IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent denial of service
  26Monitor
• CVE-2024-51462IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent data manipulation
  21Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.