>> Cisco Security Agent (CSA) Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Title : Cisco Security Agent (CSA) Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2655 CVE ID : CVE-2005-3886
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-11-29
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Cisco Security Agent (CSA), which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to a design error where software executed locally can bypass systems protections and run with elevated privileges, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges and gain full control of the system, including the disabling of the CSA agent.
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