CVE-2018-20621 - An issue was discovered in Microvirt MEmu 6.0.6

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HIGH

An issue was discovered in Microvirt MEmu 6.0.6

Published Mar 13, 2019

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.90%

Description

An issue was discovered in Microvirt MEmu 6.0.6. The MemuService.exe service binary is vulnerable to local privilege escalation through binary planting due to insecure permissions set at install time. This allows code to be run as NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-732

Incorrect Permission Assignment

References (2)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-13172
Advisory
https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/CVEs/tree/master/CVE-2018-20621
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-13172		Advisory
https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/CVEs/tree/master/CVE-2018-20621		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 13, 2019

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Dec 31, 2018

Link CVE-2018-20621

CISA Vulnrichment

No data

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2018-20621

Red Hat

No data

ENISA EUVD

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 13, 2019

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Link EUVD-2018-13172

GitHub

No data