Certain WithSecure products allow Local Privilege Escalation.
Certain WithSecure products allow Local Privilege Escalation. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15 and later, WithSecure Server Security 15 and later, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15 and later, and WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection 17 and later.
- Published
- Feb 8, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 6th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-269
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Report tools
Action score
26
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 26 / 40 · 6.7 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| withsecure | client security | cpe:2.3:a:withsecure:client_security |
| withsecure | server security | cpe:2.3:a:withsecure:server_security |
| withsecure | email and server security | cpe:2.3:a:withsecure:email_and_server_security |
| withsecure | elements endpoint protection | cpe:2.3:a:withsecure:elements_endpoint_protection |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- withsecure client security15
- withsecure elements endpoint protection17
- withsecure email and server security15
- withsecure server security15
Same product
withsecure: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2024-4454WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability31Monitor
- CVE-2023-47172Certain WithSecure products allow Local Privilege Escalation.31Monitor
- CVE-2023-47264Certain WithSecure products have a buffer over-read whereby processing certain fuzz file types may cause a denial of service (DoS).30Monitor
- CVE-2023-47263Certain WithSecure products allow a Denial of Service (DoS) in the antivirus engine when scanning a fuzzed PE32 file.30Monitor
- CVE-2023-42525Certain WithSecure products allow an infinite loop in a scanning engine via unspecified file types.30Monitor
- CVE-2023-42524Certain WithSecure products allow an infinite loop in a scanning engine via unspecified file types.30Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege ManagementCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Root cause
To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-269 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
kind: ClusterRolerules: - apiGroups: ["*"] resources: ["*"] verbs: ["*"]Fixed
kind: Rolemetadata: namespace: lodos-systemrules: - apiGroups: ["apps"] resources: ["deployments"] verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
We don't hand-write analysis for all 385,000+ vulnerabilities; that wouldn't be honest. For notable, high-impact vulnerabilities our team writes the mechanism, detection and remediation steps.
We use this product, ask for helpChange log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
- www.withsecure.com/en/support/security-advisories
- www.withsecure.com/en/support/security-advisories/cve-2024-23764
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.