Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows-Nt
CVE-2008-1436
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2, Vista, and Server 2003 and 2008 does not properly assign activities to the (1) NetworkService and (2) LocalService accounts, which might allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges by using one service process to capture a resource from a second service process that has a LocalSystem privilege-escalation ability, related to improper management of the SeImpersonatePrivilege user right, as originally reported for Internet Information Services (IIS), aka Token Kidnapping.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.368 (98.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.368 · newest: 0.368 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5891 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491111/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/951306.mspx
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1264/references (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29867 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securitywatch.eweek.com/flaws/microsoft_belatedly_admits_to_windows_server_2008…
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6705 (exploit)
- nomoreroot.blogspot.com/2008/10/windows-2003-poc-exploit-for-token.html
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)