CVE-2024-5016: WhatsUp Gold OnMessage Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

First published: Tue Jun 25 2024(Updated: )

In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1.3, Distributed Edition installations can be exploited by using a deserialization tool to achieve a Remote Code Execution as SYSTEM.  The vulnerability exists in the main message processing routines NmDistributed.DistributedServiceBehavior.OnMessage for server and NmDistributed.DistributedClient.OnMessage for clients.

Credit: security@progress.com

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