In this write-up, Ryan Hanson describes his process for identifying and exploiting CVE-2018-0952, an arbitrary file creation vulnerability in the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector service, allowing for elevation of privileges.

A few months ago, Atredis Partners had an opportunity to look at the GE Healthcare MAC5500 Electrocardiography device. This device connects to a hospital network to transfer reports to a centralized server, simplifying the workflow for EKG measurements. To facilitate transfer of this data, GE Healthcare offers MobileLink, a WiFi enabled solution for collecting measurements.

CylancePROTECT contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the update service granting Users Modify permissions on the log folder, as well as any log file it writes. This allows any user to empty the folder and use it as a Mount Point, which can be combined with a Symbolic Link to create an arbitrary file with Modify permissions when a new log file is created.