Re: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation
On 12/5/06 11:16 AM, "eugeny gladkih" <john@xxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:
>>>>>> "MS" == Michael Scheidell <scheidell@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> we've found local privilege escalation in Symantec LiveState agent.
>>>
>>> PoC:
>>>
>>> 1. kill shstart.exe process
>
> MS> Wouldn't you have to be administrator to kill shstart.exe?
>
> LocalSystem account has more privilegies then administrator's one.
The local administrator can do whatever he wants, including just setting the
startup context of a service to run as LocalSystem. Any "privileged
escalation" that requires you to already be an administrator is not an issue
at all, period. For the one-millionth-and-second time, any "issue" that
begins with "if you are a local administrator, then you can..." is a
non-issue and a waste of everyone's time.
That is the skinny on that.
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