WMAPM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
BID:8995
Info
WMAPM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
| Bugtraq ID: | 8995 |
| Class: | Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions |
| CVE: | |
| Remote: | No |
| Local: | Yes |
| Published: | Nov 08 2003 12:00AM |
| Updated: | Nov 08 2003 12:00AM |
| Credit: | Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to Knud Erik Højgaard. |
| Vulnerable: |
Mike Henderson wmapm 3.1 |
| Not Vulnerable: | |
Discussion
WMAPM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
wmapm has been reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability has been conjectured to result from a lack of relative path usage while the vulnerable dock app is invoking a third party binary. As a result of this, a local attacker may manipulate local path settings and have the setuid wmapm dock app erroneously invoke a trojan binary that is located in a directory that the attacker has permissions to write to.
wmapm has been reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability has been conjectured to result from a lack of relative path usage while the vulnerable dock app is invoking a third party binary. As a result of this, a local attacker may manipulate local path settings and have the setuid wmapm dock app erroneously invoke a trojan binary that is located in a directory that the attacker has permissions to write to.
Exploit / POC
WMAPM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A shell script to exploit this issue is available below.
A shell script to exploit this issue is available below.
Solution / Fix
WMAPM 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]>.
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]>.