CVE-2018-6856

HIGH

Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise <8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy <7.00.3, SafeGuard LAN Crypt <3.95.2 - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 0x8020601C. By crafting an input buffer we can control the execution path to the point where a global variable 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