bugtraq - PeanutHull Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Message-ID: <d65cd4390507200207604aa1b0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:07:28 +0800
From: "Sowhat ." <smaillist@...il.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: PeanutHull Local Privilege Escalation
	Vulnerability

PeanutHull Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

by Sowhat

EN: http://secway.org/advisory/AD20050720EN.txt
CN: http://secway.org/advisory/AD20050720CN.txt

Product Affected:

PeanutHull <= 3.0 Beta 5 

Overview:

Oray Inc. is the world's biggest DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name Service)
 Provider (According to their WEBSITE). PeanutHull is the DDNS client
For more information ,see http://www.oray.net 

Details:

The vulnerability is caused due to SYSTEM privileges are not 
dropped when accessing the PeanutHull from the System Tray icon.

A local non-privileged user can access the application via the 
system tray and can execute commands with Local System privileges.

Exploit:
1. Double click on the PeanutHull icon in the Taskbar to open 
   the PeanutHull window.
2. Click Help, click BBS
3. Type C:\ in the poped up IE Address BAR
4. Navagate to %WINDIR%\System32\
5. click CMD.exe 
6. A new command shell will open with SYSTEM privileges

Exploitng this vulnerability allows local non-privileged user
to obtain SYSTEM privilege.

Vendor Response:

2005.07.13 Vendor notified via email 
2005.07.14 Vendor responsed that this problem will be fixed 
           in the 3.0 Final Version.
2005.07.20 PeanutHull 3.0 Released
2005.07.20 So I released this advisory

Please update to PeanutHull 3.0
http://www.oray.net
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