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Symantec pcAnywhere Chat Session Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10238
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Release Date:
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2003-11-17
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Last Update:
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2003-11-22
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Popularity:
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9,452 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Symantec pcAnywhere 10.x
Symantec pcAnywhere 9.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec pcAnywhere, which can be exploited by malicious users to escalate their privileges.
The problem is that both local and remote users can interact with a chat session window running on the host spawned under the AWHOST32 process when Symantec pcAnywhere runs in "service mode".
This can be exploited through the save feature of the chat to start any program (e.g. open a command prompt) via the context menu on the executable and run that program with the privileges of AWHOST32 (typically SYSTEM).
The vulnerability affects versions 9.x and 10.x.
Change Page:
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