TITLE:
EMC Retrospect Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19850

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19850/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
EMC Retrospect 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/7429/
EMC Retrospect 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/1599/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability and a weakness have been reported in EMC Retrospect,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

1) An unspecified error in Retrospect can be exploited by users with
access to the backup server to run arbitrary commands with
administrator privileges via the File->Open dialog box from within
Retrospect.

2) A local user, who is able to replace the "Retrospect.exe"
executable with another application that has the same name, can cause
the launcher to run it with SYSTEM privileges.

The vulnerability and weakness have been reported in versions 6.5,
7.0, and 7.5 for Windows.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Retrospect 7.5:
Apply Retrospect Driver Update 7.5.1.105.
http://ftp.dantz.com/pub/updates/ru751105.exe

Retrospect 7.0:
Apply Application Security Update 7.0.344 (requires Retrospect
7.0.326 or Retrospect Express 7.0.301).
http://download.dantz.com/archives/Retro-EN_7_0_344.exe

Retrospect 6.5:
Apply Application Security Update 6.5.382 (requires Retrospect
6.5.350 or Retrospect Express 6.5.350).
http://download.dantz.com/archives/Retro-EN_6_5_382.exe

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Joe Luna.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=9507&p=2

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