Vulnerability in Altiris Carbon Copy

CVE-2004-1624

Carbon Copy 6.0.5257 does not drop system privileges when opening external programs through the help topic interface, which allows local users to gain privileges via (1) the help topic interface in CCW32.exe, which launches Notepad, or (2) the help button in the Carbon Copy Scheduler (CCSched.exe).

EPSS: 0.003 (26.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Altiris Carbon_copy — versions 5.0, 6.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)