Two vulnerabilities have been identified in EMC Retrospect, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges.
The first flaw is due to an error in the backup server that fails to drop privileges before launching the "File - Open dialog" box, which could be exploited by malicious users to launch applications and execute arbitrary commands with administrator privileges [...]
Affected Products
EMC Retrospect version 6.5
EMC Retrospect version 7.0
EMC Retrospect version 7.5
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Joe Luna
ChangeLog
2006-05-02 : Initial release
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