Alt-N MDaemon Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:11736

Info

Alt-N MDaemon Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11736
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 23 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 23 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Reed Arvin <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: Altn MDaemon 7.2
Altn MDaemon 6.8.5
Altn MDaemon 6.8.4
Altn MDaemon 6.8.3
Altn MDaemon 6.8.2
Altn MDaemon 6.8.1
Altn MDaemon 6.8 .0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Alt-N MDaemon Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A local privilege escalation vulnerability reportedly affects Alt-N MDaemon. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly drop privileges prior to executing child processes.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute applications with SYSTEM privileges, facilitating privilege escalation.

Exploit / POC

Alt-N MDaemon Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

Alt-N MDaemon Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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Alt-N MDaemon Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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