CVE-2020-36168 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Veritas Resiliency Platform versions 3.4 and 3.5 when using the Managed Host addon on Windows. A low-privileged user can create a malicious openssl.cnf file in a predictable path (C:\usr\local\ssl\) which, when loaded by the OpenSSL library during service startup, leads to arbitrary code execution as SYSTEM. This allows an attacker to gain full administrative control over the affected system. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a low attack complexity and local attack vector with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there are no known public exploits (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or KEV entries, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:veritas:resiliency_platform:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:veritas:resiliency_platform:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.