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CVE-2020-27871 High · 7.2 EPSS 90.8%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion…

SolarWinds · Orion Platform

Summary

The flaw is a path traversal weakness in the VulnerabilitySettings.aspx component of the SolarWinds Orion Platform, where a user-supplied path is used in file operations without proper validation. An attacker with network access can bypass the existing authentication mechanism, which otherwise requires high privileges, to create arbitrary files and execute code as SYSTEM.

Official description · CVE.org

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.2.1. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw exists within VulnerabilitySettings.aspx. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied path prior to using it in file operations. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-11902.

Breakdown
25.0 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 10 Feb 2021. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

What security researchers reported

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