2021-31222 | Stormshield SES Evolution Administration Console access control

By Max On Jul 16, 2021

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A vulnerability was found in Stormshield SES Evolution up to 2.0.x. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component Administration Console. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SES Evolution before 2.1.0 allows updating some parts of a security policy by leveraging access to a computer having the administration console installed.

The weakness was presented 07/13/2021. The advisory is shared for download at advisories.stormshield.eu. This vulnerability was named CVE-2021-31222 since 04/15/2021. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be done within the local network. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 2.1.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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