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CA Unicenter Remote Control Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA10420
Release Date: 2003-12-12
Last Update: 2004-07-06
Popularity: 9,636 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:CA ControlIT 5.x
CA Unicenter Remote Control 5.x
CA Unicenter Remote Control 6.x

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in CA Unicenter Remote Control and ControlIT, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges and by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service.

According to CA, local users can use the help interface to escalate their privileges. No more information is available.

Unicenter Remote Control 6 is also vulnerable to a Denial of Service, which causes the URC host service to consume large amounts of CPU resources.

Affected software:
Unicenter Remote Control 5.2
Unicenter Remote Control Option 5.1
Unicenter Remote Control Option German Version 5.1
Unicenter Remote Control Option 5.0
Control IT Enterprise Edition 5.1
Control IT Enterprise Edition 5.0
Control IT Advanced Edition 5.0
Unicenter Remote Control 6.0

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