Security News > 2020 > November > UK urges orgs to patch critical MobileIron CVE-2020-15505 RCE bug

The UK National Cyber Security Centre issued an alert yesterday, prompting all organizations to patch the critical CVE-2020-15505 remote code execution vulnerability in MobileIron mobile device management systems.
NCSC is warning that they are aware of hacking groups actively using the MobileIron CVE-2020-1550 vulnerability to compromise the networks in the healthcare, local government, logistics, and legal sectors.
"The NCSC is aware that Advanced Persistent Threat nation-state groups and cyber criminals are now actively attempting to exploit this vulnerability [T1190] to compromise the networks of UK organisations," the advisory reads.
The MobileIron CVE-2020-15505 vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely execute commands on an MDM server without needing to authenticate.
Researchers released a proof-of-concept exploit for the vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute commands on vulnerable devices.
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Related Vulnerability
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2020-08-17 | CVE-2020-1550 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows CDP User Components improperly handle memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. | 7.8 |
2020-07-07 | CVE-2020-15505 | Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference vulnerability in Mobileiron products A remote code execution vulnerability in MobileIron Core & Connector versions 10.3.0.3 and earlier, 10.4.0.0, 10.4.0.1, 10.4.0.2, 10.4.0.3, 10.5.1.0, 10.5.2.0 and 10.6.0.0; and Sentry versions 9.7.2 and earlier, and 9.8.0; and Monitor and Reporting Database (RDB) version 2.0.0.1 and earlier that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. | 9.8 |