A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Scheduler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Windows NT scheduler uses the drive mapping of the interactive user who is currently logged onto the system, which allows the local user to gain privileges by providing a Trojan horse batch file in place of the original batch file.

The weakness was presented 02/14/2000 as not defined posting (NTBugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2000-0197. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2000 eliminates this vulnerability.

See 15325 for similar entry.

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• NT 4.0

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• commercial

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