# CVE-2018-6851: Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privi

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-07-09 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation via IOCTL 0x80206040. By crafting an input buffer we can control the execution path to the point where the constant DWORD 0 will be written to a user-controlled address. We can take advantage of this condition to zero-out the pointer to the security descriptor in the object header of a privileged process or modify the security descriptor itself and run code in the context of a process running as SYSTEM.

## What to do

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## References

- https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/131934
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jul/20
- https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/cve-2018-6851-to-cve-2018-6857-sophos-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities/

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