Rixstep Undercover Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:22071

Info

Rixstep Undercover Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 22071
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 15 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 18 2007 12:02AM
Credit: Rixstep Pwned reported this issue.
Vulnerable: Rixstep Undercover 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Rixstep Undercover Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Rixstep Undercover is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because of a design error in the affected application.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, completely compromising affected computers. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial of service.

Exploit / POC

Rixstep Undercover Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following exploit code is available:

Solution / Fix

Rixstep Undercover Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor reports they have addressed this issue in the latest version of the application. Please contact the vendor for more information.

References

Rixstep Undercover Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:
© CVE.report 2026 |

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report