Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Audit Policy privileges management

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Audit Policy. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-0575. Moreover, an exploit is present. Changing the configuration settings is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Audit Policy. 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. CVE summarizes:

A Windows NT system's user audit policy does not log an event success or failure, e.g. for Logon and Logoff, File and Object Access, Use of User Rights, User and Group Management, Security Policy Changes, Restart, Shutdown, and System, and Process Tracking.

The weakness was disclosed 01/01/1997. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0575. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

It is declared as highly functional. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (232) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-679†). The entries VDB-13834, VDB-13833, VDB-13831 and VDB-13830 are pretty similar. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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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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• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/
• Product: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

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