CVE-2023-4996 — Local privilege escalation

Description (CNA)

Netskope was made aware of a security vulnerability in its NSClient product for version 100 & prior where a malicious non-admin user can disable the Netskope client by using a specially-crafted package. The root cause of the problem was a user control code when called by a Windows ServiceController did not validate the permissions associated with the user before executing the user control code. This user control code had permissions to terminate the NSClient service.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Netskope / Netskope Client	affected 100 & prior

CWE

CWE-281

References

https://www.netskope.com/company/security-compliance-and-assurance/security-advisories-and-disclosures/netskope-security-advisory-nskpsa-2023-003

ADP enrichment

CVE

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https://www.netskope.com/company/security-compliance-and-assurance/security-advisories-and-disclosures/netskope-security-advisory-nskpsa-2023-003

CISA-ADP

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