What is CVE-2018-18253?

CVE-2018-18253 is a high-severity vulnerability in Capmon Access Manager, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 7.0/10. Published 2019-03-15.

How severe is CVE-2018-18253?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.0 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Capmon Access Manager

CVE-2018-18253

An issue was discovered in CapMon Access Manager 5.4.1.1005. CALRunElevated.exe attempts to enforce access control by adding an unprivileged user to the local Administrators group for a very short time to execute a single command. However, the user is left in that group if the command crashes, and there is also a race condition in all cases.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.003 (22.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Capmon Access_manager
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18253?: CVE-2018-18253 is a high-severity vulnerability in Capmon Access Manager, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 7.0/10. Published 2019-03-15.
How severe is CVE-2018-18253?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.0 out of 10.