CVE-2013-10046

high

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Agnitum Outpost Internet Security 8.1 that allows an unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. The flaw resides in the acs.exe component, which exposes a named pipe that accepts unauthenticated commands. By exploiting a directory traversal weakness in the pipe protocol, an attacker can instruct the service to load a malicious DLL from a user-controlled location. The DLL is then executed in the context of the privileged service.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/agnitum-outpost-internet-security-local-priv-esc

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28335

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27282

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/local/agnitum_outpost_acs.rb

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-01

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017