Access Restriction Bypass Affecting system.management.automation package, versions [6.1.0, 6.1.5)[6.2.0, 6.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.1% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-SYSTEMMANAGEMENTAUTOMATION-451667
  • published21 Jul 2019
  • disclosed19 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-1167  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade System.Management.Automation to version 6.1.5, 6.2.2 or higher.

Overview

System.Management.Automation is a System Management Automation for PowerShell.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) which could allow an attacker to bypass WDAC enforcement.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1