Privilege escalation in Aura Sync - CVE-2018-18536
Published: December 19, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16619
CSH Severity: Medium
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-2018-18536
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 both GLCKIo and Asusgio expose a functionality to read/write data from/to IO ports. A local attacker can execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Affected software
Aura Sync
How to mitigate CVE-2018-18536
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution addressing the vulnerability.