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Progress WhatsUp Gold Vulnerability (CVE-2024-5016): Remote Code Execution

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Progress WhatsUp Gold Vulnerability (CVE-2024-5016): Remote Code Execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/25/2024
Created
06/28/2024
Added
06/27/2024
Modified
06/28/2024

Description

In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1.3 , Central/Remote Site Distributed Edition can be exploited by using a deserialization tool to achieve a Remote Code Execution as SYSTEM. The vulnerability exists in the main message processing routines: NmDistributed.DistributedServiceBehavior.OnMessage for server and NmDistributed.DistributedClient.OnMessage for clients.

Solution(s)

  • progress-whatsup-gold-upgrade-latest

References

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