THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-12608
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-12608

Managed Service Provider Patch Management Engine vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
22.4%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in SolarWinds MSP PME (Patch Management Engine) Cache Service before 1.1.15 in the Advanced Monitoring Agent. There are insecure file permissions for %PROGRAMDATA%\SolarWinds MSP\SolarWinds.MSP.CacheService\config\. This can lead to code execution by changing the CacheService.xml SISServerURL parameter.
Affected vendor
Solarwinds
Affected product
Managed Service Provider Patch Management Engine
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-276 — Incorrect Default Permissions
Published
2020-05-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 22.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-12608

  • Confirm whether Solarwinds Managed Service Provider Patch Management Engine is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-12608.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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