Description
Due to the Asset Explorer agent not validating HTTPS certificates, an attacker on the network can statically configure their IP address to match the Asset Explorer's Server IP address. This will allow an attacker to send a NEWSCAN request to a listening agent on the network as well as receive the agent's HTTP request verifying its authtoken. In AEAgent.cpp, the agent responding back over HTTP is vulnerable to a Heap Overflow if the POST payload response is too large. The POST payload response is converted to Unicode using vswprintf. This is written to a buffer only 0x2000 bytes big. If POST payload is larger, then heap overflow will occur.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Manage Engine Asset Explorer Agent | 1.0.34 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | due | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | due | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | due | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | due | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | due | No fix yet | — |