National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3209

Overview

** DISPUTED ** The Task scheduler (at.exe) on Microsoft Windows XP spawns each scheduled process with SYSTEM permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third parties, who state that the Task scheduler is limited to the Administrators group by default upon installation.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060612 Re: Windows XP Task Scheduler Local Privilege Escalation (Advisory)

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/436884/100/200/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060612 Windows XP Task Scheduler Local Privilege Escalation (Advisory)

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/436810/100/200/threaded

External Source: SREASON

Name: 1137

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1137