CVE-2024-37999
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA vulnerability has been identified in Medicalis Workflow Orchestrator (All versions). The affected application executes as a trusted account with high privileges and network access. This could allow an authenticated local attacker to escalate privileges.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceMedicalis Workflow Orchestrator runs as a trusted, high-privilege service account with network access. An authenticated local attacker could exploit this misconfiguration to perform privilege escalation, potentially gaining administrative or system-level control over the host.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE dataall versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify if Medicalis Workflow Orchestrator is installedCheck the Windows Services list, Program Files directory, or registry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall for entries named 'Medicalis Workflow Orchestrator' or similarAffected if The application is present on the system
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Identify the service account used by the application serviceOpen Services console (services.msc), locate the Medicalis Workflow Orchestrator service, right-click and select Properties, and note the value in the 'Log On As' field (or use sc qc <servicename> from elevated command prompt)Affected if The service runs under a high-privilege account such as LocalSystem, Local Service, Administrator, or a domain admin account
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Check if the service account has administrative privilegesRun 'net user <accountname>' to view group memberships, or check if the account belongs to the Administrators, Domain Admins, or Backup Operators groupsAffected if The service account belongs to privileged groups beyond what the application requires for its function
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Verify network accessibility of the serviceConfirm the service is configured with network access or binding to network interfaces, which enables remote authenticated attackers to potentially exploit the privilege gapAffected if The service listens on network ports or is accessible remotely beyond localhost
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Review local user accessAudit which local users have interactive logon rights to the system where the application runs, particularly those who could authenticate locally to trigger the exploitAffected if Multiple non-administrator users have local access to the host
The environment is affected if Medicalis Workflow Orchestrator is installed and runs under a high-privilege service account (LocalSystem, Administrator, or similar) with excessive permissions, allowing an authenticated local user to potentially escalate privileges.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataConfigure the application to run under a least-privilege service account with only the permissions required for its function, and restrict local access to trusted administrators.
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