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Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVE-2021-27569

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Emote Remote Mouse through 4.0.0.0. Attackers can maximize or minimize the window of a running process by sending the process name in a crafted packet. This information is sent in cleartext and is not protected by any authentication logic.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published