>> Microsoft Windows Data Handling Local Privilege Escalation (MS09-012)
Title : Microsoft Windows Data Handling Local Privilege Escalation (MS09-012) VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1264 CVE ID : CVE-2008-1436
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-04-18
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by authenticated attackers to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error when running applications in the context of the NetworkService or LocalService accounts, which could be exploited to gain access to resources in processes that are also running as NetworkService or LocalService, and that have the ability to elevate their privileges to LocalSystem, allowing any NetworkService or LocalService processes to elevate their privileges to LocalSystem.
Systems allowing user-provided code to run in an authenticated context, such as within Internet Information Services (IIS), ISAPI filters and extensions, ASP.NET, and SQL Server, are affected.
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