Re: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation

["Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

t