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Faronics WINSelectRead/Write Permissions for Everyone on Configuration File

Risk 56
Severity
7.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

The application Faronics WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise) saves its configuration in an encrypted file on the file system which "Everyone" has read and write access to, path to file:

C:\ProgramData\WINSelect\WINSelect.wsd

The path for the affected WINSelect Enterprise configuration file is:

C:\ProgramData\Faronics\StorageSpace\WS\WINSelect.wsd

Remedy

The vendor provides a patched version 8.30.xx.903 since May 2024 which can be downloaded from the following URL: https://www.faronics.com/document-library/document/download-winselect-standard   The vendor provided the following changelog: https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/winselect-standard-release-notes
First published (updated )
CVE-2024-36495

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