Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 3, 2018· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2018-12989
CVE-2018-12989
Description
The report-viewing feature in Pearson VUE Certiport Console 8 and IQSystem 7 before 2018-06-26 mishandles child processes and consequently launches Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge as Administrator, which allows local users to gain privileges.
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Affected products
2- Range: < 2018-06-26
- Range: < 2018-06-26
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
No source-code context for this CVE — mechanics is only generated when we can read the actual fix diff. Without that, the four sections (root cause, attack vector, affected code, fix) would be speculation rather than analysis.
References
2- certiport.pearsonvue.com/Support/Console-system-updatesmitrex_refsource_MISC
- computeco.de/2018-07-29_1.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
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