CVE-2021-42835: An issue was discovered in Plex Media Server through 1.24.4.5081-e362dc1ee. An attacker (with a foothold in a endpoint via a low-privileged user account) can…

PriorityP335high7CVSS 3.1

AVLACHPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.17%

63.4th percentile

An issue was discovered in Plex Media Server through 1.24.4.5081-e362dc1ee. An attacker (with a foothold in a endpoint via a low-privileged user account) can access the exposed RPC service of the update service component. This RPC functionality allows the attacker to interact with the RPC functionality and execute code from a path of his choice (local, or remote via SMB) because of a TOCTOU race condition. This code execution is in the context of the Plex update service (which runs as SYSTEM).

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
plex	media_server	< 1.25.0.5282	1.25.0.5282

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.0HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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