A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Unattended Install Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a config vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-16. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

After an unattended installation of Windows NT 4.0, an installation file could include sensitive information such as the local Administrator password.

The weakness was published 04/11/2000 with Microsoft as MS99-036 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0701. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.004.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch MS99-036 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (3226).

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• Operating System

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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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