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Symantec pcAnywhere Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10222
Release Date: 2003-11-14
Popularity: 7,856 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Symantec pcAnywhere 10.x
Symantec pcAnywhere 11.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec pcAnywhere allowing malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability is a variant of a Windows vulnerability, which previously has been fixed by Microsoft:
SA10066

The problem is that when Symantec pcAnywhere runs in "service-mode", local users can interact with the AWHOST32 process through the icon in the system tray. pcAnywhere runs with System privileges.

Change Page:
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