CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-6827

7.8 HIGH Published 2009-06-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-06-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-306

Description

The ListView control in the Client GUI (AClient.exe) in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x before 6.9.355 SP1 allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges and execute arbitrary commands via a "Shatter" style attack on the "command prompt" hidden GUI button to (1) overwrite the CommandLine parameter to cmd.exe to use SYSTEM privileges and (2) modify the DLL that is loaded using the LoadLibrary API function.

Affected configurations

• symantec altiris deployment solution (>= 6.0 < 6.9.355) • symantec altiris deployment solution 6.9.355

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness

References