Microsoft Windows access control

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8.8$5k-$25k0.00

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Windows (Operating System) (affected version unknown). This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Tracing Feature for Services in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 does not properly determine the length of strings in the registry, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors involving a long string, aka "Tracing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The weakness was published 08/11/2010 by Cesar Cerrudo with Argeniss (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2010-2555. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/22/2021). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 48296 (MS10-059: Vulnerabilities in the Tracing Feature for Services Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (982799)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 90628 (Microsoft Windows Tracing Feature for Services Privilege Elevation Vulnerability (MS10-059)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (60682) and Tenable (48296). Similar entries are available at 4168, 54342, 54341 and 54334.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
ATT&CK: T1068

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Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 48296
Nessus Name: MS10-059: Vulnerabilities in the Tracing Feature for Services Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (982799)
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OpenVAS ID: 902231
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Windows Tracing Feature Privilege Elevation Vulnerabilities (982799)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com
Product: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Cesar Cerrudo
Organization: Argeniss
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2010-2555 (🔍)
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X-Force: 60682
Vulnerability Center: 26758 - [MS10-059] Microsoft Windows Local Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability via Crafted Long Strings, High
SecurityFocus: 42259 - Microsoft Windows Tracing Memory Corruption Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Created: 03/19/2015 14:37
Updated: 09/22/2021 08:31
Changes: 03/19/2015 14:37 (60), 03/02/2017 11:07 (12), 09/22/2021 08:26 (3), 09/22/2021 08:31 (1)
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