{"document":{"acknowledgments":[{"urls":["https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/653767#acknowledgements"]}],"category":"CERT/CC Vulnerability Note","csaf_version":"2.0","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"### Overview\r\nA command injection vulnerability can be used in the Perimeter81 macOS application to run arbitrary commands with administrative privileges.\r\n\r\n### Description\r\nAt the time, the latest Perimeter81 MacOS application (10.0.0.19) suffers from local privilege escalation vulnerability inside its com.perimeter81.osx.HelperTool. This HelperTool allows main application to setup things which require administrative privileges such as VPN connection, changing routing table, etc.\r\n\r\nBy combining insufficient checks of an XPC connection and creating a dictionary with the key \"usingCAPath\" a command can be appended within that value to be run with administrative privileges.\r\n\r\n### Impact\r\nBy exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can run arbitrary commands with administrative privileges.\r\n\r\n### Solution\r\nPerimeter81 has released a fix in version 10.1.2.318\r\n(https://support.perimeter81.com/docs/macos-agent-release-notes)\r\n\r\n### Acknowledgements\r\nThanks to Erhad Husovic who also published vulnerability details via (https://www.ns-echo.com/posts/cve_2023_33298.html)\r\n\r\nThis document was written by Ben Koo.","title":"Summary"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED ON AN 'AS IS' BASIS AND DOES NOT IMPLY ANY KIND OF GUARANTEE OR WARRANTY, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE. YOUR USE OF THE INFORMATION ON THE DOCUMENT OR MATERIALS LINKED FROM THE DOCUMENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. ","title":"Legal Disclaimer"},{"category":"other","text":"CERT/CC Vulnerability Note is a limited advisory. It primarily identifies vendors impacted by the advisory and not specific products. We only support \"known_affected\" and \"known_not_affected\" status. Please consult the vendor's statements and advisory URL if provided by the vendor for more details ","title":"Limitations of Advisory"}],"publisher":{"category":"coordinator","contact_details":"Email: cert@cert.org, Phone: +1412 268 5800","issuing_authority":"CERT/CC under DHS/CISA https://www.cisa.gov/cybersecurity also see https://kb.cert.org/ ","name":"CERT/CC","namespace":"https://kb.cert.org/"},"references":[{"url":"https://certcc.github.io/certcc_disclosure_policy","summary":"CERT/CC vulnerability disclosure policy"},{"summary":"CERT/CC document released","category":"self","url":"https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/653767"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33298","summary":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33298"},{"url":"https://www.ns-echo.com/posts/cve_2023_33298.html","summary":"https://www.ns-echo.com/posts/cve_2023_33298.html"}],"title":"Perimeter81 macOS Application Multiple Vulnerabilities","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2023-07-31T18:27:14+00:00","generator":{"engine":{"name":"VINCE","version":"3.0.35"}},"id":"VU#653767","initial_release_date":"2023-07-20 18:25:22.063871+00:00","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-07-31T18:27:14+00:00","number":"1.20230731182714.2","summary":"Released on 2023-07-31T18:27:14+00:00"}],"status":"final","version":"1.20230731182714.2"}},"vulnerabilities":[{"title":"At the time, latest Perimeter81 MacOS application (10.","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"At the time, latest Perimeter81 MacOS application (10.0.0.19) suffers from Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability inside its com.perimeter81.osx.HelperTool. This HelperTool allows main application to setup things which require root privileges such as VPN connection, changing routing table, etc.\r\n\r\nCombining insufficient checks of an XPC connection and Command Injection vulnerability, it is possible to execute the command as root user.\r\n\r\nClass SDHelperTool_InvokerGeneral contains method install_SDP_CA which is vulnerable to the Command Injection vulnerability."}],"cve":"CVE-2023-33298","ids":[{"system_name":"CERT/CC V Identifier ","text":"VU#653767"}]}],"product_tree":{"branches":[]}}