Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-0557 - Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Intel Proset/Wireless Wifi

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
intel
CWE-269
nessus

Summary

Insecure inherited permissions in Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi products before version 21.70 on Windows 10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Restful Privilege Elevation
    Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.

Nessus

NASL familyWindows
NASL idINTEL_SA_00338_WLAN.NASL
descriptionA wireless network adapter driver on the remote host is affected by multiple security vulnerabilities: - Insecure inherited permissions in Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi products before version 21.70 on Windows 10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2020-0557) - Improper buffer restrictions in kernel mode driver for Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi products before version 21.70 on Windows 10 may allow an unprivileged user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2020-0558) Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application
last seen2020-05-31
modified2020-05-15
plugin id136670
published2020-05-15
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136670
titleIntel® PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software x < 21.70.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities