CVE-2024-36495
Read/Write Permissions for Everyone on Configuration File
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- SEC-VLab
Description
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
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By SEC-VLab
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Faronics · WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise)
- unaffected 8.30.xx.903
What to do
Solution: 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
References (3)
- https://r.sec-consult.com/winselect (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/winselect-standard-release-notes (opens in a new tab)release-notesx_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jun/12 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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