Advisory Details

October 16th, 2013

PANDA Security Communications Agent Service Pagent.exe 'MESSAGE_FROM_REMOTE' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID
CVSS SCORE	10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Panda Software
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Security for Business Communications
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of PANDA Security for Business Communications. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the 'Panda AdminSecure Communications Agent' (Pagent.exe) which listens on tcp port 19226. The service contains a directory traversal flaw which allows for the ability to create / overwrite / delete an arbitrary file. A remote attacker can abuse this to execute remote code under the context of the SYSTEM user.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Panda Software has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/support/card?id=40081
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2013-07-05 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2013-10-16 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod

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