Secunia Research: My Firewall Plus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Research 21/11/2006
- My Firewall Plus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10
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1) Affected Software
My Firewall Plus 5.0 Build 1119.
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Less critical
Impact: Privilege Escalation
Where: Local System
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"Corporate strength firewall for your personal PC".
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in My Firewall Plus,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to the application windows running
with SYSTEM privileges and the application not checking if
explorer.exe is running before performing certain actions. This can be
exploited to launch iexplore.exe with SYSTEM privileges by terminating
explorer.exe and then use the "Test Your Firewall" functionality.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary commands with
SYSTEM privileges.
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5) Solution
Enable the password protection to reduce the risk.
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6) Time Table
03/08/2006 - Vendor notified.
03/08/2006 - Vendor response.
16/08/2006 - Vendor reminder sent.
11/10/2006 - Vendor reminder sent.
21/11/2006 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2006-3973 for the vulnerability.
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10) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-59/
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