Privilege escalation in Aura Sync - CVE-2018-18537
Published: December 19, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16618
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18537
CWE-ID: CWE-782
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Asus
Affected software:
Aura Sync
Aura Sync
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target device.
The weakness exists due to a path in the processing of IOCTL_GLCKIO_READPORT (0x80102050) on GLCKIo. A local attacker can write arbitrary DWORD to an arbitrary address and gain elevated privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-18537
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any solutions addressing the vulnerability.