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K7 Ultimate Security Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Feb15 (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
General
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.2
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
9 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with K7 Ultimate Security and is prone to privilege escalation vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to a write-what-where flaw in K7Sentry.sys in K7 Computing products that is triggered when handling certain IOCTL calls.
Affected Software
Affected Software
K7 Ultimate Security before 14.2.0.253 on Windows.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to K7 Ultimate Security version 14.2.0.253 or later.