10-Strike Network Monitor 5.4 Unquoted Service Path

`=====[ Tempest Security Intelligence - ADV-20/2018 ]===  
  
10-Strike Network Monitor 5.4 - Unquoted Service Path  
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Author:  
- Filipe Xavier Oliveira: < filipe.xavier () tempest.com.br  
  
=====[ Table of Contents  
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* Overview  
* Detailed description  
* Timeline of disclosure  
* Thanks & Acknowledgements  
* References  
  
=====[ Overview  
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* System affected : 10-Strike Network Monitor [1]  
* Software Version : 5.4. Other versions or models may also be affected.  
* Impact : Allow an authorized but non-privileged local user to execute  
arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the system. If an attacker  
could copy a malicious file and place it on, for example, into the root  
directory. This would cause windows to run the malicious executable in  
the user context of the service account at the next service start.  
  
=====[ Detailed description  
]==================================================  
  
Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the srvInventoryWebServer  
service in  
10-Strike Network Monitor 5.4 allows local users to gain privileges via  
a malicious artefact.  
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[Additional Information]  
C:\Windows\system32>sc qc srvInventoryWebServer  
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS  
SERVICE_NAME: srvInventoryWebServer  
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS  
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START  
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL  
BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\Program Files\10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer  
Pro\InventoryWebServer.exe  
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :  
TAG : 0  
DISPLAY_NAME : srvInventoryWebServer  
DEPENDENCIES :  
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem  
  
=====[ Timeline of disclosure  
]===============================================  
  
10/19/2017 - Vendor was informed of the vulnerability.  
01/02/2018 - Vendor did not respond.  
01/22/2018 - CVE assigned [2]  
03/06/2018 - Advisory publication date.  
  
=====[ Thanks & Acknowledgements  
]============================================  
  
- Tempest Security Intelligence / Tempest's Pentest Team [3]  
  
=====[ References  
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[1] - https://www.10-strike.com/  
[2] - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6016  
[3] - http://tempest.com.br  
  
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Filipe Oliveira  
Tempest Security Intelligence  
  
  
  
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