pinball 0.3.1 Local Privilege Escalation

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in pinball 0.3.1. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in pinball 0.3.1 allows local users to gain privileges via unknown attack vectors that cause pinball to load plugins from an attacker-controlled directory while operating at raised privileges.

The bug was discovered 06/02/2006. The weakness was released 06/26/2006 by Stefan Kemp (Website). The advisory is shared for download at us.debian.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-2196 since 05/04/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 24 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22644 (Debian DSA-1102-1 : pinball - design error), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (27420) and Tenable (22644).

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
CWE: Unknown
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 22644
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-1102-1 : pinball - design error
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OpenVAS ID: 57027
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1102-1 (pinball)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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07/21/2019 +1592 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: us.debian.org
Researcher: Stefan Kemp
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-2196 (🔍)
X-Force: 27420
Vulnerability Center: 15474 - Pinball Vulnerability Allows Local Users to Gain Elevated Privileges, Medium
Secunia: 20778
OSVDB: 26829 - Emilia Pinball Arbitrary Plugin Privilege Escalation
Vupen: ADV-2006-2535

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Created: 03/12/2015 14:25
Updated: 07/21/2019 08:02
Changes: 03/12/2015 14:25 (70), 07/21/2019 08:02 (3)
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