{"id":"CVE-2024-50592","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition","description":"An attacker with local access the to medical office computer can \nescalate his Windows user privileges to \"NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM\" by \nexploiting a race condition in the Elefant Update Service during the \nrepair or update process. When using the repair function, the service queries the server for a \nlist of files and their hashes. In addition, instructions to execute \nbinaries to finalize the repair process are included. The executables are executed as \"NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM\" after they are \ncopied over to the user writable installation folder (C:\\Elefant1). This\n means that a user can overwrite either \"PostESUUpdate.exe\" or \n\"Update_OpenJava.exe\" in the time frame after the copy and before the \nexecution of the final repair step. 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In addition, instructions to execute \nbinaries to finalize the repair process are included. The executables are executed as \"NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM\" after they are \ncopied over to the user writable installation folder (C:\\Elefant1). This\n means that a user can overwrite either \"PostESUUpdate.exe\" or \n\"Update_OpenJava.exe\" in the time frame after the copy and before the \nexecution of the final repair step. The overwritten executable is then executed as \"NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM\"."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"HASOMED","product":"Elefant Software Updater","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"<1.4.2.1811","status":"affected","versionType":"custom"}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://r.sec-consult.com/hasomed","tags":["third-party-advisory"]},{"url":"https://hasomed.de/produkte/elefant/","tags":["patch"]}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-367","description":"CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"SEC-VLab","orgId":"551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf","dateUpdated":"2024-11-08T12:15:25.835Z"},"credits":[{"lang":"en","type":"finder","value":"Tobias Niemann, SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab"},{"lang":"en","type":"finder","value":"Daniel Hirschberger, SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab"},{"lang":"en","type":"finder","value":"Florian Stuhlmann, SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab"}],"impacts":[{"capecId":"CAPEC-26","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"CAPEC-26 Leveraging Race Conditions"}]}],"solutions":[{"lang":"en","supportingMedia":[{"base64":false,"type":"text/html","value":"<p>The vendor fixed the issue in version 1.4.2.1811 (or higher) of the Elefant Software Updater which can be downloaded from <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://hasomed.de/produkte/elefant/\">hasomed.de/produkte/elefant/</a> or via the Elefant Software Updater itself.<br></p>"}],"value":"The vendor fixed the issue in version 1.4.2.1811 (or higher) of the Elefant Software Updater which can be downloaded from  hasomed.de/produkte/elefant/ https://hasomed.de/produkte/elefant/  or via the Elefant Software Updater itself."}],"source":{"discovery":"UNKNOWN"},"workarounds":[{"lang":"en","supportingMedia":[{"base64":false,"type":"text/html","value":"<p>While workarounds such as modifying the Elefant windows firewall \nrules and manually adjusting file permissions in the installation folder\n are feasible workarounds for some of the vulnerabilities, it is \nrecommended to install the patches provided by the vendor.</p>"}],"value":"While workarounds such as modifying the Elefant windows firewall \nrules and manually adjusting file permissions in the installation folder\n are feasible workarounds for some of the vulnerabilities, it is \nrecommended to install the patches provided by the vendor."}],"x_generator":{"engine":"Vulnogram 0.2.0"}},"adp":[{"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","affected":[{"vendor":"hasomed","product":"elefant_software_updater","defaultStatus":"unknown","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThan":"1.4.2.1811","versionType":"custom"}],"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:hasomed:elefant_software_updater:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"]}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"scope":"UNCHANGED","version":"3.1","baseScore":7,"attackVector":"LOCAL","baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","integrityImpact":"HIGH","userInteraction":"NONE","attackComplexity":"HIGH","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"LOW","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH"}},{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"timestamp":"2024-11-08T15:59:42.511780Z","id":"CVE-2024-50592","options":[{"Exploitation":"poc"},{"Automatable":"no"},{"Technical Impact":"total"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}}}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CISA-ADP","orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","dateUpdated":"2024-11-08T16:04:22.869Z"}},{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/3"}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CVE","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","dateUpdated":"2025-11-03T22:28:29.966Z"}}]}}}