CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6308

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2006-12-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Symantec LiveState 7.1 Agent for Windows allows local users to gain privileges by stopping the shstart.exe process and open "Web Self-Service" from the system tray icon, which will open a browser window running with elevated privileges. NOTE: several third-party researchers have noted that administrator privileges may be necessary to terminate shstart.exe. If this is the case, then no privilege escalation occurs, and this is not a vulnerability

Affected configurations

• symantec livestate agent for windows 7.1

References