ABB Cylon Aspect Studio 3.08.03 Insecure Permissions

Exploit Details

Basic Information

Exploit Title ABB Cylon Aspect Studio 3.08.03 Insecure Permissions
Exploit ID ZSL-2025-5951
Type zeroscience
Published 2025-05-22T00:00:00
Modified 2025-05-22T00:00:00

CVSS Information

CVSS Score 6.9
Severity MEDIUM
Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/SC:H/VI:L/SI:L/VA:N/SA:N

CVE Information

  • CVE-2024-13948

Exploit Description

Title: ABB Cylon Aspect Studio 3.08.03 Insecure Permissions Advisory ID: ZSL-2025-5951 Type: Local/Remote Impact: Privilege Escalation Risk: (3/5) Release Date: 22.05.2025 …

Exploit Code

ABB Cylon Aspect Studio 3.08.03 Insecure Permissions

Vendor: ABB Ltd.

Product web page: https://www.global.abb

Affected version: <=3.08.03

Summary: ABB Cylon ASPECT Studio is a graphical programming tool and

integrated development environment (IDE) for ABB Cylon ASPECT products.

It’s used to engineer comprehensive area control and graphical user interface

(GUI) solutions, containing a library of logical and graphical widgets.

It allows users to monitor and control facilities from anywhere, providing

insights into building performance and enabling timely reactions to issues.

Desc: The application suffers from an elevation of privileges vulnerability

which can be used by a simple authenticated user that can change the executable

file with a binary of choice. The vulnerability exist due to the improper

permissions, with the ‘M’ flag (Modify) for ‘Authenticated Users’ group.

Tested on: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (EN)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-21.0.6+7

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko ‘LiquidWorm’ Krstic

@zeroscience

Advisory ID: ZSL-2025-5951

Advisory URL: https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2025-5951.php

CVE ID: CVE-2024-13948

CVE URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=CVE-2024-13948

21.04.2024

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C:\Aspect\Aspect-Studio-3.08.03>icacls *.jar

AspectStudioObf.jar BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(F)

NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(F)

BUILTIN\Users:(I)(RX)

NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(I)(M)

Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

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