Microsoft MSN Messenger 7.5 recovery.exe information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft MSN Messenger 7.5. It has been classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file recovery.exe. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-0363. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft MSN Messenger 7.5 (Messaging Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the file recovery.exe. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The "Remember my Password" feature in MSN Messenger 7.5 stores passwords in an encrypted format under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\IdentityCRL\Creds registry key, which might allow local users to obtain the original passwords via a program that calls CryptUnprotectData, as demonstrated by the "MSN Password Recovery.exe" program. NOTE: it could be argued that local-only password recovery is inherently insecure because the decryption methods and keys must be stored somewhere on the local system, and are thus inherently accessible with varying degrees of effort. Perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

The weakness was shared 01/22/2006 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-0363 since 01/22/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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• Messaging Software

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• Microsoft

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• MSN Messenger

Version

• 7.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

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