CVE-2020-24045

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2020 at 04:37 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:05 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSpamtitan

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

A sandbox escape issue was discovered in TitanHQ SpamTitan Gateway 7.07. It limits the admin user to a restricted shell, allowing execution of a small number of tools of the operating system. The restricted shell can be bypassed by presenting a fake vmware-tools ISO image to the guest virtual machine running SpamTitan Gateway. This ISO image should contain a valid Perl script at the vmware-freebsd-tools/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl path. The fake ISO image will be mounted and the script wmware-install.pl will be executed with super-user privileges as soon as the hidden option to install VMware Tools is selected in the main menu of the restricted shell (option number 5). The contents of the script can be whatever the attacker wants, including a backdoor or similar.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (4)

x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/felmoltor
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://sensepost.com/blog/2020/clash-of-the-spamtitan/
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/felmoltor
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://www.titanhq.com/

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-345

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