APC UPS Daemon versions 3.14.14 and below suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.
41553c4b9318748158dd4aa8ecbaf4b5[+] Credits: fragsh3ll aka Richard Young
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Vendor
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http://www.apcupsd.org
Product
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APC UPS Daemon <= 3.14.14
Vulnerability Type
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Privilege Escalation
Vendor Description
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Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APCas UPS
models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APCas
Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS,
and BackUPS-Office. During a power failure, apcupsd will inform the users
about the power failure and that a shutdown may occur. If power is not
restored, a system shutdown will follow when the battery is exhausted, a
timeout (seconds) expires, or runtime expires based on internal APC
calculations determined by power consumption rates. Apcupsd is licensed
under the GPL version 2.
CVE Reference
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CVE-2017-7884
Vulnerability Details
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The default installation of APCUPSD allows a local unprivileged user to run
arbitrary code with elevated privileges by replacing the service executable
apcupsd.exe with a malicious executable, which will run with SYSTEM
privileges at startup.
C:\apcupsd\bin\apcupsd.exe
RW BUILTIN\Administrators
RW NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
RW NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
Exploit
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1) Install the application with default settings.
2) Replace the service executable located at C:\apcupsd\bin\apcupsd.exe
with an executable of your choice.
3) Restart the service or computer, the executable will run.
Disclosure Timeline:
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4/17/17 - Vendor notified
4/17/17 - Vendor acknowledged
5/6/17 - Vendor still working
6/5/17 - No response
6/14/17 - No response
6/15/17 - Public disclosure