Security Advisory SA42614 - Microsoft Windows Consent User Interface Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA42614

Microsoft Windows Consent User Interface Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA42614

Release Date

2010-12-14

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Windows Vista

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-3961 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the User Account Control (UAC) Consent UI component when processing certain registry values and can be exploited to gain "LocalSystem" privileges.

Successful exploitation requires the "Impersonate a client after authentication" (SeImpersonatePrivilege) user right.

Solution
Apply patches.
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Cesar Cerrudo, Argeniss.

Original Advisory
MS10-100 (KB2442962):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-100.mspx

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