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Cisco Security Agent Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA17815
Release Date: 2005-11-30
Last Update: 2005-12-07
Popularity: 6,713 views

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

Software:Cisco Security Agent (CSA) 4.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Security Agent (CSA), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in CSA on the Windows platform. This can be exploited by malicious users to gain SYSTEM privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
* Cisco CSA version 4.5.0 (all builds) managed and standalone agents.
* Cisco CSA version 4.5.1 (all builds) managed and standalone agents.
* Cisco CSA version 4.5.0 (build 573) for CallManager.
* Cisco CSA version 4.5.1 (build 628) for CallManager.
* Cisco CSA version 4.5.1 (build 616) for Intelligent Contact Management (ICM), IPCC Enterprise, and IPCC Hosted.
* Cisco CSA version 4.5.0 ( build 573) for Cisco Voice Portal (CVP) 3.0 and 3.1.

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