Phoenix SCT WinFlash up to 1.5.74.0 Driver privileges management

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Phoenix SCT WinFlash up to 1.5.74.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Driver. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2019-18279. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Phoenix SCT WinFlash up to 1.5.74.0. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Phoenix SCT WinFlash 1.1.12.0 through 1.5.74.0, the included drivers could be used by a malicious Windows application to gain elevated privileges. Adverse impacts are limited to the Windows environment and there is no known direct impact to the UEFI firmware. This was fixed in late June 2019.

The weakness was released 11/13/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at phoenix.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-18279 since 10/23/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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Vendor

• Phoenix

Name

• SCT WinFlash

Version

• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.5.10
• 1.5.11
• 1.5.12
• 1.5.13
• 1.5.14
• 1.5.15
• 1.5.16
• 1.5.17
• 1.5.18
• 1.5.19
• 1.5.20
• 1.5.21
• 1.5.22
• 1.5.23
• 1.5.24
• 1.5.25
• 1.5.26
• 1.5.27
• 1.5.28
• 1.5.29
• 1.5.30
• 1.5.31
• 1.5.32
• 1.5.33
• 1.5.34
• 1.5.35
• 1.5.36
• 1.5.37
• 1.5.38
• 1.5.39
• 1.5.40
• 1.5.41
• 1.5.42
• 1.5.43
• 1.5.44
• 1.5.45
• 1.5.46
• 1.5.47
• 1.5.48
• 1.5.49
• 1.5.50
• 1.5.51
• 1.5.52
• 1.5.53
• 1.5.54
• 1.5.55
• 1.5.56
• 1.5.57
• 1.5.58
• 1.5.59
• 1.5.60
• 1.5.61
• 1.5.62
• 1.5.63
• 1.5.64
• 1.5.65
• 1.5.66
• 1.5.67
• 1.5.68
• 1.5.69
• 1.5.70
• 1.5.71
• 1.5.72
• 1.5.73
• 1.5.74.0

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