CWE-520

.NET Misconfiguration: Use of Impersonation

Allowing a .NET application to run at potentially escalated levels of access to the underlying operating and file systems can be dangerous and result in various forms of attacks.

CVE-2019-25608 (GCVE-0-2019-25608)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-22 13:38 – Updated: 2026-03-23 15:30
VLAI?
Title
Iperius Backup 6.1.0 Privilege Escalation via Backup Job
Summary
Iperius Backup 6.1.0 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows low-privilege users to execute arbitrary programs with elevated privileges by creating backup jobs. Attackers can configure backup jobs to execute malicious batch files or programs before or after backup operations, which run with the privileges of the Iperius Backup Service account (Local System or Administrator), enabling privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution.
CWE
  • CWE-520 - .NET Misconfiguration: Use of Impersonation
Assigner
Impacted products
Date Public ?
2019-05-17 00:00
Credits
bzyo
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Mitigation

Phase: Operation

Description:

  • Run the application with limited privilege to the underlying operating and file system.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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