Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 5 Jan 2015 10:26 Release Date: 5 Jan 2015 4048 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Operating Systems - Windows OS

A vulnerability has been identified in Windows Kernel, which can be exploited by local user to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.

The NtApphelpCacheControl() function in 'ahcache.sys' does not properly validate the caller's impersonation token for administrator privileges. A local user can exploit this to run execute arbitrary code on the target system with elevated privileges.

Note: No solution is available at the time of this entry.

Impact

Elevation of Privilege

System / Technologies affected

Windows 8.1

Solutions

No solution was available at the time of this entry.

Vulnerability Identifier

No CVE information is available

Source

Google Project Zore
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