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GCVE-110-CERTCC-2020-760767
GCVE-110-CERTCC-2020-760767
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### Overview
Macrium Reflect contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the use of an `OPENSSLDIR` variable that specifies a location where an unprivileged Windows user can create files.
### Description
**CVE-2020-10143**
Macrium Reflect includes an OpenSSL component that specifies an `OPENSSLDIR` variable as `C:\openssl\`. Macrium Reflect contains a privileged service that uses this OpenSSL component. Because unprivileged Windows users can create subdirectories off of the system root, a user can create the appropriate path to a specially-crafted `openssl.cnf` file to achieve arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges.
### Impact
By placing a specially-crafted `openssl.cnf` in the `C:\openssl\` directory, an unprivileged user may be able to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a Windows system with the vulnerable Macrium software installed.
### Solution
#### Apply an update
This vulnerability is addressed in [Macrium Reflect v7.3.5281](https://updates.macrium.com/reflect/v7/v7.3.5281/details7.3.5281.htm).
### Acknowledgements
This vulnerability was reported by Will Dormann of the CERT/CC.
This document was written by Will Dormann.
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