Microsoft Windows 2000/NT PDC/BDC privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Windows 2000/NT and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component PDC/BDC. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-1999-0659. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to change the configuration settings.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows 2000/NT (Operating System) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component PDC/BDC. 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 summary by CVE is:

** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: this candidate is solely about a configuration that does not directly introduce security vulnerabilities, so it is more appropriate to cover under the Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE). Notes: the former description is: "A Windows NT Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or Backup Domain Controller (BDC) is present."

The weakness was presented 01/01/1999. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-0659. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. 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 06/23/2021). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10413 (Microsoft Windows SMB Registry : Remote PDC/BDC Detection), 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 databases at X-Force (1325), Tenable (10413) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-434†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Operating System

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• 2000
• NT

License

• commercial

Website

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

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