High severity · published Jul 9, 2018
CVE-2018-6851
Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation via IOCTL 0x80206040
7.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation via IOCTL 0x80206040. By crafting an input buffer we can control the execution path to the point where the constant DWORD 0 will be written to a user-controlled address. We can take advantage of this condition to zero-out the pointer to the security descriptor in the object header of a privileged process or modify the security descriptor itself and run code in the context of a process running as SYSTEM.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SE
Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client · Sophos
6.00; 6.10; 7.00 · source: NVD
SE
Safeguard Enterprise Client · Sophos
5.60.3; 6.00; 6.00.1; 6.10; 7.00; 8.00 · source: NVD
SL
Safeguard Lan Crypt Client · Sophos
3.90.1; 3.90.2; 3.95.1; 3.95.1 · source: NVD
Affected product
SE
Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client
Sophos
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6851
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6851
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jul/20
Patch
https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/131934
Exploit
https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/cve-2018-6851-to-cve-2018-6857-sophos-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities/
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