Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution prior 6.8.380.0 aclient.exe access control

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A vulnerability was found in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file aclient.exe of the component Deployment. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Altiris Client Service (AClient.exe) in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8.x before 6.9.164 allows local users to gain privileges via a "Shatter" style attack.

The bug was discovered 03/10/2008. The weakness was published 03/24/2008 by Brett Moore with Insomnia Security (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityresponse.symantec.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-1473 since 03/24/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 31417 (Altiris AClient < 6.9.164 Multiple Local Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 6.8.380.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (41100) and Tenable (31417). Similar entry is available at 41927.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
ATT&CK: T1068

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Remote: No

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 31417
Nessus Name: Altiris AClient < 6.9.164 Multiple Local Vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8.380.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: securityresponse.symantec.com
Researcher: Brett Moore
Organization: Insomnia Security
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-1473 (🔍)
X-Force: 41100
SecurityTracker: 1019569
Vulnerability Center: 17898 - Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Local Privilege Escalation (Shatter Attack), Medium
SecurityFocus: 28110 - Symantec Altiris Deployment Server Agents 'AClient.exe' Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 29319 - Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Server Agent Privilege Escalation, Less Critical
OSVDB: 42714 - CVE-2008-1473 - Symantec - Altiris Deployment Solution - Privilege Escalation Issue
Vupen: ADV-2008-0843

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 08/07/2019 10:30
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (80), 08/07/2019 10:30 (3)
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