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Escalation of privileges in Outpost and Lavasoft Firewalls -Unusual ShellExecute behavior
Escalation of privileges in Outpost and Lavasoft Firewalls -Unusual ShellExecute behavior
Escalation of privileges in Outpost and Lavasoft Firewalls -Unusual ShellExecute behavior



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Outpost Firewall Pro ver. 3.51.759.6511 (462)=0D
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And Lavasoft Personal Firewall ver. 1.0.543.5722 (433)=0D
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Summary of problem: The firewall runs its windows under a SYSTEM context.=0D
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A user with lower privileges than SYSTEM could locate the (open folder) control on some=0D
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of these windows, terminate the explorer.exe process and then click on the (open folder) control=0D
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to open a SYSTEM owned explorer shell logging in right over the top of the previous user!=0D
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for details see: =0D
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http://www.ben.goulding.com.au/secad.html=0D 
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