RE: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation

["Michael Scheidell" <scheidell () secnap net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ss_team [mailto:ssteam.pl () gmail com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:28 AM
> To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
> Subject: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - 
> Local Privilege Escalation
>
>
> hello,
>
> we've found local privilege escalation in Symantec LiveState agent.
>
> PoC:
>
> 1. kill shstart.exe process

Wouldn't you have to be administrator to kill shstart.exe?


> 2. from symantec livestate agent icon in systray choose "Web 
> Self-Service"
> 3. New browser window will open, it is running with SYSTEM privileges.
>
> tested on fully patched Win XP SP2, Symantec LiveState agent 7.1
>
>
> Credits: marc & shb
>
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