Citrix Metaframe ICA Client Privilege Inheritance Vulnerability

BID:6641

Info

Citrix Metaframe ICA Client Privilege Inheritance Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 6641
Class: Origin Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 17 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 17 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Vulnerability discovery credited to Steinar Kleven <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Citrix MetaFrame XPe
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Citrix Metaframe ICA Client Privilege Inheritance Vulnerability

Metaframe is a remote desktop software package distributed by Citrix. This issue affects Metaframe on the Microsoft Windows platform.

An alleged problem in Metaframe may have security implications.

This issue is reported to occur when a higher privileged user is prompted with a login dialog for the server holding the print queues and successfully authenticates. The higher privileged users permissions may be transferred to unprivileged ICA client users.

This could result in a violation of security policy. Additionally, this may have unintended consequences across sessions.

Exploit / POC

Citrix Metaframe ICA Client Privilege Inheritance Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits 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]>.

Solution / Fix

Citrix Metaframe ICA Client Privilege Inheritance 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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