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>> Servers Alive Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Servers Alive Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0270
CVE ID : CVE-2005-0352
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-03-17


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A new vulnerability was identified in Servers Alive, which may be exploited by malicious users to obtain elevated privileges. The flaw occurs when loading the "Local manual" help file, which is run with SYSTEM privileges, and may be exploited to launch a system utility such as "cmd.exe" with elevated privileges.

Affected Products

Servers Alive version 5.0.1680 and prior
Servers Alive version 4.1 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any official supplied patch for this issue.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0270

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Michael Starks

ChangeLog

2005-03-17 : Initial release

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