A null pointer deference vulnerability in Win32k.sys has been disclosed to Microsoft. CVE-2018-8120 has been assigned to track this vulnerability. The attacker needs to be able to execute a crafted application on the target machine to be able to exploit this vulnerability. Upon successful exploitation the attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution with system level … Continue reading “Win32k Elevation of Privilege : CVE-2018-8120”
Tag: Elevation of Privilege
Mishandling of Debug Exceptions Leading to Elevation of Privilege : CVE-2018-8897
An elevation of privilege attack was discovered in the stack change mechanism in Intel and AMD. On exploitation an attacker can execute user level code in kernel context or cause DoS. The vulnerability resulted due to misinterpretation of the documents describing the stack change process. CVE-2018-8897 has been assigned to track this vulnerability. The researchers … Continue reading “Mishandling of Debug Exceptions Leading to Elevation of Privilege : CVE-2018-8897”
CouchDB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CouchDB is an open source non-SQL database designed for easy data replication. It uses Couch replication protocol to implement its replication functionality. CouchDB is implemented in Erlang. Two vulnerabilities CVE-2017-12635, CVE-2017-12636 were reported in CouchDB, they can exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution with admin privileges. CVE-2017-12635: Elevation of privilege The vulnerability allows non-admin users … Continue reading “CouchDB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability”
[Zero Day] Memory Leak and Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in GNU C Library Dynamic Loader
Qualys Vulnerability and Malware Research Labs has uncovered vulnerabilities in the Linux operating system specifically in glibc’s ld.so shared object. CVE-2017-1000408 is a Memory Leak vulnerability and CVE-2017-1000409 is a Buffer overflow vulnerability which is not exploitable if /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks is enabled on the machine. The targets are not vulnerable to either of these vulnerabilities if … Continue reading “[Zero Day] Memory Leak and Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in GNU C Library Dynamic Loader”
Intel Firmware Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Intel Management Engine (ME), Intel Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel Trusted Execution Engine (TXE). The vulnerabilities were discovered as a result of an in-house security review of the products in question and input from external researchers. The vulnerabilities are mostly buffer overflows leading to arbitrary code execution and privilege … Continue reading “Intel Firmware Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities”
CVE-2017-5689: Intel Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability
An Elevation of privilege vulnerability in Intel’s Management solutions, was confirmed by Intel who released INTEL-SA-00075 for the same. The vulnerability can allow an unprivileged attacker to take over the management features. This vulnerability is assigned ID CVE-2017-5689, it rated as critical for affected targets. It is important to note that this bug does not affect … Continue reading “CVE-2017-5689: Intel Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability”
Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability: CVE-2017-0005
An Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in the Windows GDI component was reported to Microsoft by Lockheed Martin Computer Incident Response Team. The vulnerability is assigned Id – CVE-2017-0005 “Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability”. The bug was addressed in MS17-0013 along with other GDI targeted EoP vulnerabilities. According to Microsoft this exploit is used by the … Continue reading “Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability: CVE-2017-0005”
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE 2016-3371)
Introduction The Windows registry is a hierarchical tree with nodes called keys and each key can contain subkeys or values, a logical group of keys is called a hive. By default Windows has 7 standard hives .There are many reasons to target the registry to gain persistence by modifying entries, to obtain user and system … Continue reading “Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE 2016-3371)”