CVE-2023-38041

Published: Oct 25, 2023Modified: Mar 7, 2025

7.0

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 1.0 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

A logged in user may elevate its permissions by abusing a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition. When a particular process flow is initiated, an attacker can exploit this condition to gain unauthorized elevated privileges on the affected system.

Affected (1)

Products: Ivanti: Secure Access Client

1 product

Secure Access Client

Configuration A

1 vulnerable · 1 platform

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Ivanti Secure Access Client	Before 22.6

Running on/with	Platform Versions
Microsoft Windows	All versions

Related CWEs

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

References (2)

https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/CVE-2023-38041-New-client-side-release-to-address-a-privilege-escalation-on-Windows-user-machines?language=en_US

Source: support@hackerone.com

Vendor Advisory

https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/CVE-2023-38041-New-client-side-release-to-address-a-privilege-escalation-on-Windows-user-machines?language=en_US

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

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