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Kaspersky Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Privilege escalation

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

This host is installed with Kaspersky Products and is prone to Privilege Escalation vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

This flaw occurs due to insecure permissions (Everyone/Full Control) applied on the BASES folder which contains configuration files, antivirus bases and executable modules.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7, 2009, 2009 prior to 9.0.0.736 Kaspersky Internet Security 7, 2009, 2009 prior to 9.0.0.736 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0, 6.0 for Windows Workstations prior to 6.0.4.1212 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows File Servers prior to 6.0.4.1212

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to latest version of appropriate product, Kaspersky Anti-Virus/Internet Security 2009 (9.0.0.736) Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations/File Servers 6.0 (6.0.4.1212)

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