Re: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation

[eugeny gladkih <john () drweb com>]

> > > > > "MS" == Michael Scheidell <scheidell () secnap net> writes:

> > we've found local privilege escalation in Symantec LiveState agent.
> >
> > PoC:
> >
> > 1. kill shstart.exe process

 MS> Wouldn't you have to be administrator to kill shstart.exe?

LocalSystem account has more privilegies then administrator's one.

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