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Cisco VPN Client Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20261
Release Date: 2006-05-25
Last Update: 2006-07-28
Popularity: 11,790 views

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

Software:Cisco VPN Client 2.x
Cisco VPN Client 3.x
Cisco VPN Client 4.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco VPN Client, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the GUI (also known as the "VPN client dialer") in combination with the "Start Before Logon" feature, which can be enabled by unprivileged users. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x, 4.6.x, 4.7.x (except version 4.7.00.0533), and 4.8.00.x for Windows.

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