Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 vxschedservice.exe access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file vxschedservice.exe. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2007-2279. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file vxschedservice.exe. 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 Scheduler Service (VxSchedService.exe) in Symantec Storage Foundation for Windows 5.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code via certain requests to the service socket that create (1) PreScript or (2) PostScript registry values under Veritas\VxSvc\CurrentVersion\Schedules specifying future command execution.

The bug was discovered 06/01/2007. The weakness was disclosed 06/04/2007 by Aaron Portnoy with TippingPoint (Website). The advisory is available at symantec.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-2279 since 04/26/2007. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/20/2019). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25420 (Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Scheduler Service (VxSchedService.exe) Remote Code Execution), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gain a shell remotely and running in the context r.

A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 14741.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (34680), Tenable (25420), SecurityFocus (BID 24194†), OSVDB (36104†) and Secunia (SA25537†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.4

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 25420
Nessus Name: Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Scheduler Service (VxSchedService.exe) Remote Code Execution
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 14741

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: symantec.com
Researcher: Aaron Portnoy
Organization: TippingPoint
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-2279 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-2279
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-37082
X-Force: 34680
SecurityFocus: 24194 - Symantec Storage Foundation VxSchedService.EXE Scheduler Service Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia: 25537
OSVDB: 36104 - Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Scheduler Service (VxSchedService.exe) Remote Code Execution
SecurityTracker: 1018188
Vulnerability Center: 15334 - Symantec Storage Foundation Vulnerability Allows Local User Authentication Bypass, Critical
Vupen: ADV-2007-2035

Entryinfo

Created: 03/15/2015 15:58
Updated: 07/20/2019 15:50
Changes: 03/15/2015 15:58 (79), 07/20/2019 15:50 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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