CVE-2018-5349 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can escalate privileges to SYSTEM by placing a malicious DLL in a world-writable directory loaded by the Heimdal agent.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-5349?
CVE-2018-5349 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability has been found in Heimdal PRO v2.2.190, but it is most likely also present in Heimdal FREE and Heimdal CORP. Faulty permissions on the directory "C:\ProgramData\Heimdal Security\Heimdal Agent" allow BUILTIN\Users to write new files to the directory. On startup, the process Heimdal.MonitorServices.exe running as SYSTEM will attempt to load version.dll from this directory. Placing a malicious version.dll in this directory will result in privilege escalation. NOTE: any affected Heimdal products are completely unrelated to the Heimdal vendor of a Kerberos 5 product on the h5l.org web site.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5349?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Heimdalsecurity Heimdal.
How do I fix CVE-2018-5349?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-5349 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2018-5349 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5349 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jxhq-c35p-v59f.