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Net Monitor For Employees Pro Privilege Escalation

2017-06-0800:00:00
Saeid Atabaki
packetstormsecurity.com
28

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.0%

`# Exploit Title: Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation - Net Monitor for Employees Pro <= 5.3.4   
# Date: 18/03/2017  
# Exploit Author: Saeid Atabaki  
# E-Mail: bytecod3r <at> gmail.com, saeid <at> Nsecurity.org  
# Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saeidatabaki  
# Vendor Homepage: http://networklookout.com/  
# Version: <= 5.3.4  
# CVE: CVE-2017-7180  
# Vendor Not Resoponding. contacted vendor 18/3/2017   
  
Net Monitor for Employees is an application to monitor users machine and its agent based. Its agent install itself as a service ("Net Monitor for Employees Agent") with an unquoted service path running with SYSTEM privileges. This could potentially allow an authorized but non-privileged local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the system.  
  
  
C:\Users\Win7>sc qc "Net Monitor for Employees Agent"  
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS  
  
SERVICE_NAME: Net Monitor for Employees Agent  
TYPE : 110 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)  
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START  
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL  
BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\Program Files\Net Monitor for Employees Pro\bin\nmep_ctrlagentsvc.exe  
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :  
TAG : 0  
DISPLAY_NAME : Net Monitor for Employees Agent  
DEPENDENCIES :  
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem  
  
  
A successful attempt would require the local attacker must insert an executable file in the path of the service. Upon service restart or system reboot, the malicious code will be run with elevated privileges.  
  
  
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0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.0%