AOL Security Edition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:19583

Info

AOL Security Edition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 19583
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2006-0948
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 18 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 29 2006 07:13PM
Credit: Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.
Vulnerable: AOL AOL Security Edition 9.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

AOL Security Edition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

AOL Security Edition is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

This vulnerability arises because of insecure default permissions associated with directories, which can allow local attackers to place arbitrary executables in a directory that may be executed with elevated privileges.

AOL Security Edition 9.0 is reported vulnerable; other versions may be affected as well.

Exploit / POC

AOL Security Edition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

AOL Security Edition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
AOL has released fixes to address this issue. These fixes can be automatically applied by logging in to the service.

References

AOL Security Edition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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