FrSIRT - EMC Retrospect Backup Server and Launcher Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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EMC Retrospect Backup Server and Launcher Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Title : EMC Retrospect Backup Server and Launcher Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-1612
CVE ID : CVE-2006-2154 - CVE-2006-2155
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-05-02

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

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 [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/1612
http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=9507&p=2

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Joe Luna

ChangeLog

2006-05-02 : Initial release

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