CVE-2021-42855 — Local privilege escalation due to misconfigured write permission on .debug_command.config file

Description (CNA)

It was discovered that the SteelCentral AppInternals Dynamic Sampling Agent (DSA) uses the ".debug_command.config" file to store a json string that contains a list of IDs and pre-configured commands. The config file is subsequently used by the "/api/appInternals/1.0/agent/configuration" API to map the corresponding ID to a command to be executed.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Aternity / SteelCentral AppInternals Dynamic Sampling Agent	affected 10.x; affected 12.13.0 before 12.13.0; affected 11.8.8 before 11.8.8

CWE

CWE-284

References

https://aternity.force.com/customersuccess/s/article/Local-privilege-escalation-due-to-misconfigured-write-permission-on-debug-command-config-file-CVE-2021-42855

ADP enrichment

CVE

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https://aternity.force.com/customersuccess/s/article/Local-privilege-escalation-due-to-misconfigured-write-permission-on-debug-command-config-file-CVE-2021-42855