CVE-2018-9023

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

An input validation vulnerability in CA Privileged Access Manager 2.x allows unprivileged users to execute arbitrary commands by passing specially crafted arguments to the update_crld script.

Affected products

CA Technologies CA Privileged Access Manager: from 2.0.0 before 3.0.0 — fixed in 3.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: CA Technologies CA Privileged Access Manager 3.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104496
https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/recommended-reading/security-notices/ca20180614-01--security-notice-for-ca-privileged-access-manager.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104496
https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/recommended-reading/security-notices/ca20180614-01--security-notice-for-ca-privileged-access-manager.html

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