Description (CNA)
Improper preservation of permissions in the Avast sandbox minifilter driver (aswSnx.sys) on Windows allows a local, low-privileged attacker executing inside the sandbox to escape file isolation and escalate to SYSTEM. When the sandbox virtualizes a file it copies the original security descriptor, but the driver opened the virtualization target object with GENERIC_WRITE and FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES only, omitting WRITE_DAC. Every attempt to apply the original DACL therefore failed, and the failure was discarded silently, leaving virtualized copies of sensitive files with permissive permissions. Because the IRP_MJ_CREATE callback additionally did not strip WRITE_DAC for sensitive directories, a sandboxed process could rewrite the security descriptor of a virtualized object, read the virtualized copy of the SAM database, extract local NTLM password hashes and execute code as SYSTEM. The absence of an IRP_MJ_SET_SECURITY callback in the driver's operation registration table is a related defense-in-depth gap, but it is not the control that prevents this attack.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Gen Digital / Avast Free Antivirus, Avast One, Avast Premium Security, Avast Ultimate, Avast Business Security | affected 0 before 26.8 |
| Gen Digital / AVG Antivirus Free, AVG Internet Security, AVG Ultimate | affected 0 before 26.8 |
| Gen Digital / Norton Antivirus Plus, Norton 360 Standard, Norton 360 Deluxe, Norton 360 Advanced | affected 0 before 26.8 |
CWE
CWE-281, CWE-653, CWE-862
References
- https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/contact-us/security-advisories/
- https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/Update-Antivirus
- https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlname=Update-AVG-Antivirus
- https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v20240108175512167
- https://github.com/MSNightmare/PrettyPrague
- https://x.com/msnightmare2000/status/2094106041046765752
ADP enrichment
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