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High · 7.8 CVE-2021-42855 EUVD-2021-29810GHSA-j285-2pfr-phwh

Local privilege escalation due to misconfigured write permission on .debug_command.config file

Published Mar 9, 2022 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by GovTech CSG

Description

It was discovered that the SteelCentral AppInternals Dynamic Sampling Agent (DSA) uses the ".debug_command.config" file to store a json string that contains a list of IDs and pre-configured commands. The config file is subsequently used by the "/api/appInternals/1.0/agent/configuration" API to map the corresponding ID to a command to be executed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Aternity SteelCentral AppInternals Dynamic Sampling Agent 10.x, 12.13.0 – < 12.13.0, 11.8.8 – < 11.8.8 12.13.0

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