Local Privilege Escalation in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe via OpenSSL configuration path
CVE-2024-2658 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in FlexNet Publisher prior to 2024 R1 (11.19.6.0), including deployments used by Schneider Electric Floating License Manager. The flaw stems from a misconfiguration in lmadmin.exe that causes OpenSSL to load its configuration from a hard-coded path in a non-existent directory. Because that directory is absent by default, a low-privileged locally authenticated user may be able to create the path and place a specially crafted openssl.cnf/openssl.conf file there. By controlling OpenSSL configuration, the attacker can specify a malicious DLL via the engine dynamic_path mechanism, causing lmadmin.exe to load attacker-controlled code when the service initializes. The DLL executes in the security context of the lmadmin.exe licensing service, which runs as NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE.
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