CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-6024 — Checkpoint Smartconsole security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

Check Point SmartConsole before R80.10 Build 185, R80.20 Build 119, R80.30 before Build 94, R80.40 before Build 415, and R81 before Build 548 were vulnerable to a possible local privilege escalation due to running executables from a directory with write access to all authenticated users.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (3.1)
Published
2021-01-20
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-114, CWE-269

Affected products

  • checkpoint / smartconsole
  • checkpoint / smartconsole / r80.20
  • checkpoint / smartconsole / r80.30
  • checkpoint / smartconsole / r80.40
  • checkpoint / smartconsole / r81

Matched remediation archetype

Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management

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Check exposure

  • Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
  • Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
  • Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
  • Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
  • Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.

Authoritative sources

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