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Windows Insecure Service Permissions Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA18756
Release Date: 2006-02-08
Last Update: 2006-03-14
Popularity: 18,530 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

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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.

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