Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4996 - Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Netskope
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Netskope was made aware of a security vulnerability in its NSClient product for version 100 & prior where a malicious non-admin user can disable the Netskope client by using a specially-crafted package. The root cause of the problem was a user control code when called by a Windows ServiceController did not validate the permissions associated with the user before executing the user control code. This user control code had permissions to terminate the NSClient service.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 11 | |
| OS | 1 |