{"id":168276,"date":"2023-07-25T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T07:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/critical-zero-days-in-atera-windows-installers-expose-users-to-privilege-escalation-attacks"},"modified":"2023-07-25T02:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T07:33:06","slug":"critical-zero-days-in-atera-windows-installers-expose-users-to-privilege-escalation-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/critical-zero-days-in-atera-windows-installers-expose-users-to-privilege-escalation-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Critical Zero-Days in Atera Windows Installers Expose Users to Privilege Escalation Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/critical-zero-days-in-atera-windows-installers-expose-users-to-privilege-escalation-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows Installers for the Atera remote monitoring and management software could act as a springboard to launch privilege escalation attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The flaws, discovered by Mandiant on February 28, 2023, have been assigned the identifiers <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/cve-2023-26077\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2023\u201326077<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/cve-2023-26078\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2023\u201326078<\/a>, with the issues remediated in versions 1.8.3.7 and 1.8.4.9 released by Atera on April 17, 2023, and June 26, 2023, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to initiate an operation from a NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM context can present potential security risks if not properly managed,\u201d security researcher Andrew Oliveau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandiant.com\/resources\/blog\/privileges-third-party-windows-installers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cFor instance, misconfigured <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/win32\/msi\/custom-actions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Custom Actions<\/a> running as NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM can be exploited by attackers to execute local privilege escalation attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows Installers for the Atera remote monitoring and management software could act as a springboard to launch privilege escalation attacks. The flaws, discovered by Mandiant on February 28, 2023, have been assigned the identifiers CVE-2023\u201326077 and CVE-2023\u201326078, with the issues remediated in versions 1.8.3.7 and 1.8.4.9 released by Atera on April 17, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}