Issued: December 18, 2019

Last Updated: December 18, 2019

CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company, is alerting customers to a potential risk with CA Client Automation agent on Windows. A vulnerability exists that can allow a local attacker to gain escalated privileges. CA published solutions to address the vulnerability and recommends that all affected customers implement the applicable solution.

The vulnerability, CVE-2019-19231, occurs due to insecure file access by the agent services. A local attacker may exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands with escalated privileges on an installation of the Client Automation agent.

Risk Rating

High

Platform(s)

Windows

Affected Products

CA Client Automation 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 Windows agent

Affected Component

CA Client Automation Agent for Windows

How to determine if the installation is affected

Only the CA Client Automation agent on Windows is vulnerable. Customers may check the .his file for the presence of the fix.

Solution

CA Technologies published the following solutions to address the vulnerabilities.

Agents for CA Client Automation R14, R14 SP1 (14.0, 14.1):

Update to CA Client Automation R14 SP2 or SP3 and apply the appropriate fix for R14 SP2 or SP3.

Agents for CA Client Automation R14 SP2 (14.2):

SO11134

Agents for CA Client Automation R14 SP3 (14.3):

SO11210

References

CVE-2019-19231 - CA Client Automation Agent privilege escalation

Acknowledgement

CVE-2019-19231 - Andrew Hess

Change History

Version 1.0: 2019-12-18 - Initial Release

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