A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Operating System). This issue affects an unknown function of the component File Protection. 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 weakness was shared 01/01/2000. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation requires 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 08/25/2022). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10449 (Microsoft Windows SMB Registry : SFCDisable Key Permission Weakness), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (10449). The entries 88316 and 88315 are related to this item.

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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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