McAfee® Safe Connect VPN - Unquoted Service Path Elevation Of Privilege

vendor:

McAfee Safe Connect

by:

Saud Alenazi

7.2

CVSS

HIGH

Unquoted Service Path Elevation Of Privilege

426

CWE

Product Name: McAfee Safe Connect

Affected Version From: 2.13

Affected Version To: 2.13

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE:

CPE: a:mcafee:mcafee_safe_connect

Metasploit:

Other Scripts:

Platforms Tested: Windows 10 x64

2022

McAfee® Safe Connect VPN – Unquoted Service Path Elevation Of Privilege

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.

Mitigation:

Ensure that all services are configured with a fully qualified path to the executable.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: McAfee® Safe Connect VPN - Unquoted Service Path Elevation Of Privilege
# Date: 09/03/2022
# Exploit Author: Saud Alenazi
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.mcafee.com/
# Software Link: https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/vpn/mcafee-safe-connect.html
# Version: 2.13
# Tested: Windows 10 x64
# Contact: https://twitter.com/dmaral3noz

C:\Users\saudh>sc qc SafeConnectService

[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: SafeConnectService

        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        START_TYPE         : 2   AUTO_START
        ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
        BINARY_PATH_NAME   : C:\Program Files (x86)\McAfee\McAfee Safe Connect\SafeConnect.ServiceHost.exe
        LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
        TAG                : 0
        DISPLAY_NAME       : McAfee Safe Connect Service
        DEPENDENCIES       :
        SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem


#Exploit:

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.