{"id":21501,"date":"2022-03-10T20:40:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/166251\/mcafeesafeconnect-unquotedpath.txt"},"modified":"2022-03-12T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T04:49:05","slug":"mcafee-safe-connect-vpn-unquoted-service-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/mcafee-safe-connect-vpn-unquoted-service-path\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee Safe Connect VPN Unquoted Service Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"># Exploit Title: McAfee\u00ae Safe Connect VPN &#8211; Unquoted Service Path Elevation Of Privilege<br \/>\n# Date: 09\/03\/2022<br \/>\n# Exploit Author: Saud Alenazi<br \/>\n# Vendor Homepage: https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/<br \/>\n# Software Link: https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/en-us\/vpn\/mcafee-safe-connect.html<br \/>\n# Version: 2.13<br \/>\n# Tested: Windows 10 x64<br \/>\n# Contact: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dmaral3noz<\/p>\n<p>C:\\Users\\saudh&gt;sc qc SafeConnectService<\/p>\n[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS<\/p>\n<p>SERVICE_NAME: SafeConnectService<\/p>\n<p>TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS<br \/>\nSTART_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START<br \/>\nERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL<br \/>\nBINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\\Program Files (x86)\\McAfee\\McAfee Safe Connect\\SafeConnect.ServiceHost.exe<br \/>\nLOAD_ORDER_GROUP :<br \/>\nTAG : 0<br \/>\nDISPLAY_NAME : McAfee Safe Connect Service<br \/>\nDEPENDENCIES :<br \/>\nSERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem<\/p>\n<p>#Exploit:<\/p>\n<p>A successful attempt would require the local user to be able to insert their code in the system root path undetected by the OS or other security applications where it could potentially be executed during application startup or reboot. If successful, the local user&#8217;s code would execute with the elevated privileges of the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p># Exploit Title: McAfee\u00ae Safe Connect VPN &#8211; Unquoted Service Path Elevation Of Privilege # Date: 09\/03\/2022 # Exploit Author: Saud Alenazi # Vendor Homepage: https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/ # Software Link: https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/en-us\/vpn\/mcafee-safe-connect.html # Version: 2.13 # Tested: Windows 10 x64 # Contact: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dmaral3noz C:\\Users\\saudh&gt;sc qc SafeConnectService [SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS SERVICE_NAME: SafeConnectService TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS START_TYPE : &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}