Symantec PGP and Symantec Encryption Desktop client has an unquoted search path in RDDService. This could provide a non-privileged local user the ability to successfully insert arbitrary code in the root path.
Product
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Version
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Build
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Solution(s)
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Symantec PGP Desktop
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10.2.x
10.1.x
10.0.x
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All
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Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3.0 MP3 or later
Symantec Encryption Desktop
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10.3.0
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All prior to 10.3.0 MP3
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Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3.0 MP3 or later
Products Not Affected
Product
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Version
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Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3.0 MP3 and later
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10.3.1
CVSS2
Base Score
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Impact
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Exploitability
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CVSS2 Vector
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PGP Client RDDService unquoted search path - Medium
6.8
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10.0
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3.1
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AV:L/AC:L/AU:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVE
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BID
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Description
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CVE-2013-1610
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61489
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Symantec Encryption Desktop RDDService Unquoted Search Path
Details
Symantec was notified of an unquoted search path issue impacting the RDDService deployed in Symantec PGP and Encryption Desktop clients. An authorized but non-privileged local user could potentially leverage this to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the system. 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’s code would execute with the elevated privileges of the application.
Symantec Response
The vulnerable RDDService is no longer used in Symantec Encryption Desktop. Symantec engineers have removed this service from Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3.0 MP3 and later releases. Symantec recommends upgrading to the latest version of Symantec Encryption Desktop.
Symantec is not aware of exploitation of or adverse customer impact from this issue.
Update Information
Updates are available through customer’s normal download locations.
Best Practices
As part of normal best practices, Symantec strongly recommends:
Symantec credits Sean McCarthy - NCC Group, http://www.nccgroup.com, for reporting this issue and working with us.
BID: Security Focus, http://www.securityfocus.com, has assigned a Bugtraq ID (BID) to this issue for inclusion in the Security Focus vulnerability database.
CVE: The issue is a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes names for security problems.
8/2/2013 - updated the affected version of 10.3.0 to all builds prior to 10.3.0 MP3 and added 10.3.0 MP3 or later to the solution