Microsoft Secure Access 3.x Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Microsoft Secure Access 3.x. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Executing a manipulation can lead to Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2006-0561. No exploit is available. Additional authentication should be implemented.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Secure Access 3.x. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 3.x for Windows stores ACS administrator passwords and the master key in the registry with insecure permissions, which allows local users and remote administrators to decrypt the passwords by using Microsoft s cryptographic API functions to obtain the plaintext version of the master key.

The bug was discovered 05/08/2006. The weakness was published 05/09/2006 by Andreas Junestam (Website). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-0561 since 02/06/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (26307), SecurityFocus (BID 16743†), OSVDB (25892†), SecurityTracker (ID 1016042†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-11391†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.7

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Local Privilege Escalation
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Authentication
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Timelineinfo

02/06/2006 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Andreas Junestam
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-0561 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0561
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-30130
X-Force: 26307
SecurityFocus: 16743 - Cisco Secure ACS Insecure Password Storage Vulnerability
OSVDB: 25892 - Cisco Secure ACS Registry Cleartext Authentication Credential Disclosure
SecurityTracker: 1016042
Vulnerability Center: 11391 - [cisco-sr-20060508-acs] Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) Password Disclosure, Low
Vupen: ADV-2006-1741

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/17/2019 16:50
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (60), 06/17/2019 16:50 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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