Unpatched Windows 10 Zero-Day Allows Privileged File Access

An unpatched Windows security vulnerability could allow information disclosure and local privilege escalation LPE, researchers have warned. The issue CVE-2021-24084 has yet to get an official fix, making it a zero-day bug – but a micropatch has been rolled out as a stop-gap measure. Security...

CVE-2021-36934: Undefined Security Weakness

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists because of overly permissive Access Control Lists ACLs on multiple system files, including the Security Accounts Manager SAM database. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. An...

Microsoft Windows SAM user enumeration

Using the domain security identifier SID, Nessus was able to enumerate the domain users on the remote Windows system using the Security Accounts Manager. Note: Unable to obtain SMB SAMR user data during Agent scans. Rendering User data obtained by plugin 171956 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Microsoft Windows: Network security: Do not store LAN Manager hash value on next password change

This policy setting determines whether LAN Manager is prevented from storing hash values for the new password the next time the password is changed. Hash values are a representation of the password after the encryption algorithm is applied that corresponds to the format that is specified by the...