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CVE-2018-6851

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.61%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-07-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2018-6851
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.61%

Original NVD 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.