Lenovo Mouse Suite up to 6.72 access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Lenovo Mouse Suite up to 6.72. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2015-4596. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Lenovo Mouse Suite up to 6.72. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Lenovo Mouse Suite before 6.73 allows local users to run arbitrary code with administrator privileges.

The bug was discovered 08/19/2015. The weakness was released 06/13/2017 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.lenovo.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-4596 since 06/16/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 85908 (Lenovo Mouse Suite < 6.73 Local Privilege Elevation), 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 6.73 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (85908). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Vendor

• Lenovo

Name

• Mouse Suite

Version

• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.8
• 6.9
• 6.10
• 6.11
• 6.12
• 6.13
• 6.14
• 6.15
• 6.16
• 6.17
• 6.18
• 6.19
• 6.20
• 6.21
• 6.22
• 6.23
• 6.24
• 6.25
• 6.26
• 6.27
• 6.28
• 6.29
• 6.30
• 6.31
• 6.32
• 6.33
• 6.34
• 6.35
• 6.36
• 6.37
• 6.38
• 6.39
• 6.40
• 6.41
• 6.42
• 6.43
• 6.44
• 6.45
• 6.46
• 6.47
• 6.48
• 6.49
• 6.50
• 6.51
• 6.52
• 6.53
• 6.54
• 6.55
• 6.56
• 6.57
• 6.58
• 6.59
• 6.60
• 6.61
• 6.62
• 6.63
• 6.64
• 6.65
• 6.66
• 6.67
• 6.68
• 6.69
• 6.70
• 6.71
• 6.72

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.lenovo.com/

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