CVE-2018-6856

Summary

CVECVE-2018-6856
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-09 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionSophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation via IOCTL 0x8020601C. By crafting an input buffer we can control the execution path to the point where a global variable will be written to a user controlled address. We can take advantage of this condition to zero-out the pointer to the security descriptor in the object header of a privileged process or modify the security descriptor itself and run code in the context of a process running as SYSTEM.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sophos Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client 6.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client 6.10 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client 7.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client 6.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client 6.10 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client 7.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 5.60.3 vs-nfd All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 6.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 6.00.1 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 6.10 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 7.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 8.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 5.60.3 vs-nfd All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 6.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 6.00.1 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 6.10 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 7.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Client 8.00 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Lan Crypt Client 3.90.1 ts All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Lan Crypt Client 3.90.2 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Lan Crypt Client 3.95.1 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Lan Crypt Client 3.95.1 ts All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Lan Crypt Client 3.90.1 ts All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Lan Crypt Client 3.90.2 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Lan Crypt Client 3.95.1 All All All
Application Sophos Safeguard Lan Crypt Client 3.95.1 ts All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Full Disclosure: Sophos Safeguard Products - Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities. FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Service and Support CONFIRM community.sophos.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE-2018-6851 to CVE-2018-6857: Sophos Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities – Nettitude Labs MISC labs.nettitude.com Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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