Local SYSTEM escalation via unquoted service path
Published Jan 13, 2020 · Updated Aug 6, 2024
Privilege escalation in Safend Data Protector Agent 3.4.5586.9772 allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges via malicious executable placement. The SDBAgent and SDPAgent Windows service paths contain spaces but omit quotation marks, so Windows can run an attacker-created earlier path candidate instead. Exploitation requires local write access to the system drive or another earlier path segment, and the substituted executable runs with LocalSystem privileges when the service starts.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Safend Data Protector Agent 3.4.5586.9772 allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges via malicious executable placement. The SDBAgent and SDPAgent Windows service paths contain spaces but omit quotation marks, so Windows can run an attacker-created earlier path candidate instead. Exploitation requires local write access to the system drive or another earlier path segment, and the substituted executable runs with LocalSystem privileges when the service starts.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2012-4761
- Published
- Jan 13, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1574.009
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 13, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 6, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Safend Data Protector unquoted service path proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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