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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2021-27240 – SolarWinds Patch Manager privilege escalation

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

CVE-2021-27240

SolarWinds Patch Managercould allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in the DataGridService WCF service. By sending a specially-crafted input, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of Administrator.

Impact

Privilege escalation

Affected Vendors

SolarWinds

Affected Products

SolarWinds Patch Manager 2020.2

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Patch Manager (2020.2.4 or later).

SolarWinds Web site

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