PT-2018-10130 · Alps · Alps Pointing-Device Driver

Souhail Hammou · Published 2018-05-09 · Updated 2019-06-25 · CVE-2018-10828

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Alps Pointing-device Driver version 10.1.101.207

Description An issue in the Alps Pointing-device Driver allows the current user to map and write to the ApMsgFwd File Mapping Object section. The ApMsgFwd.exe uses the data written to this section as arguments to functions, which can cause a denial of service condition when invalid pointers are written to the mapped section. This driver has been used with various devices, including Dell, ThinkPad, and VAIO.

Recommendations For Alps Pointing-device Driver version 10.1.101.207, consider restricting access to the ApMsgFwd File Mapping Object section to prevent unauthorized writes. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the ApMsgFwd.exe until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-10828

Affected Products

Alps Pointing-Device Driver

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/SouhailHammou/Exploits/blob/master/CVE-2018-10828/apmsgfwd_exploit_dos.c · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/44610 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10828 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-10828 · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-25654 · Note