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Secunia Advisory SA11711

Apple Remote Desktop Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA11711
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Release Date 2004-10-28
   
Popularity 8,961 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Apple Remote Desktop 1.x
Apple Remote Desktop 2.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-0962 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Andrew Nakhla has discovered a vulnerability in Apple Remote Desktop, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain root access on a vulnerable system.

The problem is that a user under certain circumstances during the login process is able to launch applications behind the login window with root privileges.

Successful exploitation requires that the user has a valid account, has been granted "Open and quit applications" privileges, and that fast user switching is enabled.


Solution
Update to version 2.1 or apply Security Update 2004-10-27 for version 1.x.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Andrew Nakhla

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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