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Netlux Antivirus 1.0.1.8 Session Manager Service Privilege Escalation

Low
Advisory ID
ZSL-2015-5245
Release Date
06 June 2015
Vendor
Netlux Systems Private Limited. - http://www.netluxantivirus.com
Affected Version
1.0.1.8 and 1.0.1.4
CVE
N/A
Tested On
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (EN)
Summary

Netlux Antivirus is an award-winning product that provides comprehensive protection against all types of viruses,trojans,malwares and spywares, secures your data, protects your privacy and ensures your PC remains virus-free.

Description

The Netlux Antivirus suffers from an unquoted search path issue impacting the Session Manager Service 'NXSessSvc' service for Windows deployed as part of Netlux Antivirus package. 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
01.06.2015Vulnerability discovered.
03.06.2015Vendor contacted.
05.06.2015No response from the vendor.
06.06.2015Public security advisory released.
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic
References
Changelog
06.06.2015Initial release
13.06.2015Added reference [2], [3] and [4]