CVE-2018-6855
HIGHSophos SafeGuard Enterprise <8.00.5 / Easy <7.00.3 / LAN Crypt <3.95.2 - Local Privilege Escalation
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 0x80202014. By crafting an input buffer we can control the execution path to the point where the constant 0xFFFFFFF will be written to a user-controlled address. We can take advantage of this condition to modify the SEP_TOKEN_PRIVILEGES structure of the Token object belonging to the exploit process and grant SE_DEBUG_NAME privilege. This allows the exploit process to interact with higher privileged processes running as SYSTEM and execute code in their security context.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/131934
Issue Tracking, 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
3.8%
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