CVE-2018-6851
HIGHSophos SafeGuard Enterprise, Easy, and LAN Crypt - Local Privilege Escalation via IOCTL 0x80206040
Title source: llmDescription
Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation via IOCTL 0x80206040. By crafting an input buffer we can control the execution path to the point where the constant DWORD 0 will be written to a user-controlled address. We can take advantage of this condition to zero-out the pointer to the security descriptor in the object header of a privileged process or modify the security descriptor itself and run code in the context of a process running as SYSTEM.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/131934
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jul/20
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/cve-2018-6851-to-cve-2018-6857-sophos-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0002
EPSS Percentile
5.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (12)
sophos/safeguard_easy_device_encryption_client
6.00
sophos/safeguard_easy_device_encryption_client
6.10
sophos/safeguard_easy_device_encryption_client
7.00
sophos/safeguard_enterprise_client
5.60.3 vs-nfd
sophos/safeguard_enterprise_client
6.00
sophos/safeguard_enterprise_client
6.00.1
sophos/safeguard_enterprise_client
6.10
sophos/safeguard_enterprise_client
7.00
sophos/safeguard_enterprise_client
8.00
sophos/safeguard_lan_crypt_client
3.90.1 ts
... and 2 more
Published
Jul 09, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026