Intuit QuickBooks Desktop 2017 Password information disclosure

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Intuit QuickBooks Desktop 2017. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Password). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality.

The weakness was published 01/06/2017 by Maxim Tomashevich as QuickBooks 2017 Admin Credentials Disclosure as not defined mailinglist post (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at seclists.org. The attack can be launched remotely. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK. The advisory points out:

Thus in QuickBooks 2017 US or CA (upto R4 so far) database "Admin" level credentials are available by default to anybody with current Windows login details for all QBW files created.

The advisory illustrates:

Due to fixed location used to store .sdu files they can also be used to collect login credentials for remote access to QB database with a simplest malicious script/code.

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

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Exploitinginfo

Name: Password
Class: Information disclosure / Password
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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07/15/2020 +1285 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: QuickBooks 2017 Admin Credentials Disclosure
Researcher: Maxim Tomashevich
Status: Not defined

Entryinfo

Created: 01/07/2017 14:46
Updated: 07/15/2020 16:54
Changes: 01/07/2017 14:46 (41), 07/15/2020 16:54 (1)
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