Privilege escalation in Dell Protected Workspace and Invicea-X - CVE-2016-9038

 

Privilege escalation in Dell Protected Workspace and Invicea-X - CVE-2016-9038

Published: July 5, 2017 / Updated: July 5, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7321
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9038
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to double fetch race condition in the SboxDrv.sys driver functionality. A local attacker can send specially crafted data to the DeviceSandboxDriverApi device driver, trigger kernel memory corruption and gain system privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in privilege escalation.

Affected software

Dell Protected Workspace
Invicea-X

How to mitigate CVE-2016-9038

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official patch addressing the vulnerability.



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