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Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator Insecure Permissions Local Privilege Escalation (credentialed check)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59193

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Synopsis

An update management application installed on the remote Windows host has a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The version of Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) installed on the remote host has a privilege escalation vulnerability. The installation directory allows write access to the Everyone group. This directory contains batch files that are periodically executed as SYSTEM. A local, unprivileged attacker could exploit this by creating or modifying files that will be executed as SYSTEM, resulting in privilege escalation.

A partial fix for this issue was included in LUA 2.3.1, but it does not mitigate all possible attack vectors.

Solution

Upgrade to Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator 2.3.2 or later.

See Also

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2012-04

http://www.nessus.org/u?361efb67

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59193

File Name: symantec_lua_privilege_escalation.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 5/18/2012

Updated: 12/4/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0304

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:symantec:liveupdate_administrator

Required KB Items: SMB/symantec_lua/path

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2012

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0304

BID: 53903