A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Windows up to XP (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Registry Handler. The manipulation of the argument HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key in a Windows NT system has inappropriate, system-critical permissions.

The weakness was shared 01/01/1999. This vulnerability is known as CVE-1999-0580. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/09/2019). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as highly functional. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (24). The entries 14362, 14361, 14360 and 14358 are related to this item.

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• Operating System

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• 7
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• Server 2003
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• XP

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• commercial

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• end of life (old version)

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