Anti-Virus Total Security up to 14.2.0.252 Privileges access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Anti-Virus Total Security up to 14.2.0.252. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Privileges. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2014-9643. In addition, an exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Anti-Virus Total Security up to 14.2.0.252 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Privileges. 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:

K7Sentry.sys in K7 Computing Ultimate Security, Anti-Virus Plus, and Total Security before 14.2.0.253 allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted 0x95002570, 0x95002574, 0x95002580, 0x950025a8, 0x950025ac, or 0x950025c8 IOCTL call.

The weakness was presented 02/06/2015 (Website). The advisory is available at osvdb.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-9643 since 01/22/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 14.2.0.253 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (35992) and OSVDB (113007†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.6

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Exploitinginfo

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

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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OpenVAS ID: 867315
OpenVAS Name: K7 Ultimate Security Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Feb15 (Windows)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Total Security 14.2.0.253

Timelineinfo

01/22/2015 🔍
02/06/2015 +15 days 🔍
02/06/2015 +0 days 🔍
03/27/2015 +49 days 🔍
06/29/2024 +3382 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 130246⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2014-9643 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-9643
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-73898
OSVDB: 113007

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/27/2015 14:56
Updated: 06/29/2024 16:06
Changes: 03/27/2015 14:56 (54), 03/28/2019 09:35 (4), 04/12/2022 14:09 (3), 06/29/2024 16:06 (15)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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