CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2018-6476 — Superantispyware Superantispyware security vulnerability
Critical
CVSS 9.8
In SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Trial 6.0.1254, the SASKUTIL.SYS driver allows privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x9C402114 or 0x9C402124 or 0x9C40207c.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.0)
- Published
- 2018-01-31
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- superantispyware / superantispyware / 6.0.1254
Matched remediation archetype
Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management
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Check exposure
- Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
- Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
- Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
- Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
- Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.
Authoritative sources
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