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>> Lavasoft Personal Firewall "open folder" Option Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Title : Lavasoft Personal Firewall "open folder" Option Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2851
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3697
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-07-18
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A vulnerability has been identified in Lavasoft Personal Firewall, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to a design error where certain windows are run with SYSTEM privileges, which could be exploited by malicious users to launch applications and execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges via the "open folder" option.
Affected Products
Lavasoft Personal Firewall version 1.0.543.5722 (433) and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2851
http://www.ben.goulding.com.au/secad.html
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Ben Goulding
ChangeLog
2006-07-18 : Initial release
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