Apparently N-able N-central has critical flaws that are being exploited in the wild. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-n-able-n-central-flaws-exploited-in-zero-day-attacks/ (infosec.exchange)

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Apparently N-able N-central has critical flaws that are being exploited in the wild. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-n-able-n-central-flaws-exploited-in-zero-day-attacks/

I am not surprised at all. Their software security leaves a lot to desire. Recently they downplayed actually critical flaw #CVE_2024_5445 (RCE as SYSTEM via MiTM as "low") as seen here:

https://sintonen.fi/advisories/n-able-ecosystem-agent-improper-certificate-validation.txt

"The vulnerability reported does not constitute an RCE, the Ecosystem agent is designed to run installation packages in a privileged context and the agent is doing what it should do when it receives such packages to install over the APIs."'

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[-] gnyman@infosec.exchange 1 points 1 month ago

@harrysintonen@infosec.exchange uh what? That explanation makes it sound worse, not better.

even if it requires that the attacker MITM the connection so PR is high... looking at it, how can they claim a RCE has Low impact to CIA?

[-] harrysintonen@infosec.exchange 1 points 1 month ago

@gnyman@infosec.exchange No kidding? I can only recommend anyone doing research on N-Able to avoid going through their "bug bounty" program. They actively cite the program rules to shut down disclosure, namely I cannot show how trivial the attack is to pull off by using mitmproxy. So there is no way for me to challenge their obviously flawed scoring of the vulnerability.

ref https://infosec.exchange/@harrysintonen/112999715864274188

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