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HP Device Manager (CVE-2020-6927): Elevation of Privilege

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HP Device Manager (CVE-2020-6927): Elevation of Privilege

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/25/2020
Created
10/08/2020
Added
10/03/2020
Modified
01/12/2023

Description

Potential vulnerabilities have been identified with certain versions of HP Device Manager. These vulnerabilities may allow locally managed accounts within HP Device Manager to be susceptible to dictionary attacks due to weak cipher implementation (CVE-2020-6925) and allow a malicious actor to remotely gain unauthorized access to resources (CVE-2020-6926), and/or allow a malicious actor to gain SYSTEM privileges (CVE-2020-6927). CVE-2020-6927 does not impact customers who are using an external database (Microsoft SQL Server) and have not installed the integrated Postgres service.

Solution(s)

  • hp-device-manager-upgrade-latest

References

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