CVE-2020-8838: An issue was discovered in Zoho ManageEngine AssetExplorer 6.5. During an upgrade of the Windows agent, it does not validate the source and binary downloaded…

PriorityP433medium6.4CVSS 3.1

AVAACHPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.56%

72.1th percentile

An issue was discovered in Zoho ManageEngine AssetExplorer 6.5. During an upgrade of the Windows agent, it does not validate the source and binary downloaded. This allows an attacker on an adjacent network to execute code with NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM privileges on the agent machines by providing an arbitrary executable via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
zohocorp	manageengine_assetexplorer	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.9MEDIUMAV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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