A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/2000 (Operating System). This affects some unknown functionality of the component Right Assignment. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

a windows nt user has inappropriate rights or privileges e.g. act as system add workstation backup change system time create pagefile create permanent object create token name debug generate security audit increase priority increase quota load driver lock memory profile single process remote shutdown replace process token restore system environment take ownership or unsolicited input.

The weakness was disclosed 01/01/1997. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-0534. Attacking locally is a requirement. A authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting .

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (240). The entries 13831, 13830, 13828 and 13826 are pretty similar.

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• 2000
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