Privilege escalation in Aura Sync - CVE-2018-18537

 

Privilege escalation in Aura Sync - CVE-2018-18537

Published: December 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16618
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.6 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18537
CWE-ID: CWE-782
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

Aura Sync

How to mitigate CVE-2018-18537

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any solutions addressing the vulnerability.


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