Secunia Logo  


Secunia PSI WorldMap
 
Windows Insecure Service Permissions Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA18756
Release Date: 2006-02-08
Last Update: 2006-03-14
Popularity: 18,507 views

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

OS:Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

Subscribe: Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities


Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Description:
Sudhakar Govindavajhala and Andrew W. Appel have reported some security issues in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

Insecure SERVICE_CHANGE_CONFIG permissions on the UPNPHost, NetBT, SCardSvr, DHCP, DnsCache, and SSDPSRV services can be exploited to gain escalated privileges by changing the associated program set to run by an identified service.

Successful exploitation allows an arbitrary program to be executed when an affected service is restarted.

The security issues have been reported in Windows XP SP1 (all listed services) and Windows Server 2003 (NetBT service). The vendor reports that Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 are unaffected.

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.

Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

About this Secunia Advisory
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
  
Latest Advisories

6th Nov, 2009
New advisories: 17
New vulnerabilities: 65
Updated advisories: 21

Less // 363 views
Debian update for linux-2.6.24
Less // 348 views
Debian update for linux-2.6
Moderately // 326 views
Gentoo update for horde
Less // 340 views
Fedora update for kernel
Less // 330 views
Fedora update for kernel
Moderately // 331 views
Ubuntu update for libgd2
Moderately // 344 views
Ubuntu update for libgd2
Highly // 349 views
Fedora update for alienarena-data

Solutions | More...  


Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.

Most Popular - 3 Hours

1. Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities // 41 views
2. Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability // 29 views
3. OpenSSL TLS Session Renegotiation Plaintext Injection Vulnerability // 20 views
4. Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities // 19 views
5. Google Chrome Two Vulnerabilities // 16 views
6. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities // 16 views
7. Red Hat update for java-1.6.0-openjdk // 15 views
8. Mono XML Signature HMAC Truncation Spoofing // 15 views
9. Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities // 14 views
10. Fedora update for java-1.6.0-openjdk // 13 views