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Realtek 11n Wireless LAN Utility Privilege Escalation

Low
Advisory ID
ZSL-2015-5228
Release Date
24 February 2015
Vendor
Realtek Semiconductor Corp. - http://www.realtek.com.tw
Affected Version
700.1631.106.2011
CVE
N/A
Tested On
Microsoft Windows 7
Summary

Realtek 11n Wireless LAN utility is deployed and used by realtek alfa cards and more in order to help diagnose and view wireless card properties.

Description

The application suffers from an unquoted search path issue impacting the Realtek Service 'Realtek11nSU' and 'Realtek11nCU' for Windows deployed as part of 11n USB Wireless LAN Utility. This could potentially allow an authorized but non-privileged local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the system. A successful attempt would require the local user to be able to insert their code in the system root path undetected by the OS or other security applications where it could potentially be executed during application startup or reboot. If successful, the local user’s code would execute with the elevated privileges of the application.

Proof of Concept
Disclosure Timeline
N/A
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Humberto Cabrera
References
Changelog
24.02.2015Initial release
25.02.2015Added reference [3]
26.02.2015Added reference [4]
12.03.2015Added reference [5]