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Novell Client Firewall Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA21161
Release Date: 2006-07-24
Last Update: 2007-01-18
Popularity: 5,783 views

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

Software:Novell Client Firewall (NCF) 2.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Novell Client Firewall, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application windows running with SYSTEM privileges and not properly restricting users from running arbitrary programs. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges by e.g. crafting a batch file executing cmd.exe and then move another file over this file inside Explorer via the "Save Configuration As..." functionality or similar.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.0 Build 0727. Other versions may also be affected.

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