CVE-2021-20108

Manage Engine Asset Explorer Agent 1.0.34 listens on port 9000 for incoming commands over HTTPS from Manage Engine Server. The HTTPS certificates are not verified which allows any arbitrary user on the network to send commands over port 9000. While these commands may not be executed (due to authtoken validation), the Asset Explorer agent will reach out to the manage engine server for an HTTP request. During this process, AEAgent.cpp allocates 0x66 bytes using "malloc". This memory is never free-ed in the program, causing a memory leak. Additionally, the instruction sent to aeagent (ie: NEWSCAN, DELTASCAN, etc) is converted to a unicode string, but is never freed. These memory leaks allow a remote attacker to exploit a Denial of Service scenario through repetitively sending these commands to an agent and eventually crashing it the agent due to an out-of-memory condition.
References
Link Resource
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-29 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:zohocorp:manageengine_assetexplorer:1.0.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

28 Jul 2021, 12:55

Type Values Removed Values Added
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 5.0
v3 : 7.5
CPE cpe:2.3:a:zohocorp:manageengine_assetexplorer:1.0.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE CWE-401
References (MISC) https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-29 - (MISC) https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-29 - Third Party Advisory

19 Jul 2021, 15:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-07-19 15:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55


NVD link : CVE-2021-20108

Mitre link : CVE-2021-20108

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-20108


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Products Affected

zohocorp

  • manageengine_assetexplorer
CWE
CWE-401

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime