VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2021-36934

If a Volume Shadow Copy VSS shadow copy of the system drive is available, users can read the SAM file which would allow any user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM level...

Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and Virtual Disk Service (VDS) is affected by a vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-4104)

Summary A vulnerability was identified within the Apache Log4j library that is used by IBM Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS and Virtual Disk Service VDS for IBM Spectrum Virtualize family and IBM DS8000 family storage systems. This vulnerability has been addressed...

Conti Ransomware

Conti is a sophisticated Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS model first detected in December 2019. Since its inception, its use has grown rapidly and has even displaced the use of other RaaS tools like Ryuk. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigati...

Windows SAM secrets leak - HiveNightmare

Due to mismanagement of SAM and SYSTEM hives in Windows 10, it is possible for an unprivileged user to read those files. But, as they are locked while Windows is running we are not able to read them directly. The trick is to take advantage of Volume Shadow Copy, which is generally enabled, to...

Microsoft Windows 10 gives unprivileged user access to system32\config files

Overview Multiple versions of Windows 10 grant non-administrative users read access to files in the %windir%\system32\config directory. This can allow for local privilege escalation LPE. Description With multiple versions of Windows 10, the BUILTIN\Users group is given RX permissions to files in...

IRTriage - Incident Response Triage - Windows Evidence Collection For Forensic Analysis

Scripted collection of system information valuable to a Forensic Analyst. IRTriage will automatically "Run As ADMINISTRATOR" in all Windows versions except WinXP. The original source was Triage-ir v0.851 an Autoit script written by Michael Ahrendt. Unfortunately Michael's last changes were posted...

The vulnerability of the shadow_copy2_get_shadow_copy_data function in the Samba networking communication software package, related to information disclosure, allows a perpetrator to gain access to confidential data.

The vulnerability of the shadowcopy2getshadowcopydata function in the Samba networking communication software package is related to the disclosure of information. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to gain access to confidential data remotely...

Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager

Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager Notice for users who installed Update Rollup 7 earlier than August 21, 2015 We had an issue with Update Rollup 7 in which expired recovery points were not getting cleaned up, and the release was pulled back. The update rollup was...

How to Use VSSTrace to Collect VSS Diagnostic Logging

Challenge This article explains how to collect additional VSS diagnostic data with the VSSTrace tool, a Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit SDK component. Cause Veeam products use Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS for various tasks. Sometimes it is necessary to go through the...

Job fails to create VSS snapshot for SMB share

Challenge A File Backup/file to tape job skips VSS snapshot creation on SMB share and ends with the following message in the log: Failed to create a VSS snapshot, failing over to direct backup from the file share A File Backup job for an SMB3 File Share configured to use Backup from a Microsoft V...

Information Disclosure

samba4 is vulnerable to information disclosure attacks. The vulnerability exists when a certain vfs shadow copy configuration is enabled, does not properly initialize the SRVSNAPSHOTARRAY response field, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive information from...

March 22, 2018—KB4088889 (OS Build 14393.2155)

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Restore/SureBackup from old DC restore point fails due to shadow copy expiration

Challenge DC restore results in DSRM boot and event id 1918 from ActiveDirectoryDomainService stating: The shadow copy service cannot restore Active Directory Domain Services because the shadow copy used is too old. Copy Cause The backup of the DC is older than the tombstone period. Active...

Cannot find anymore diff area candidates for volume

Challenge Backup or replication of a Windows OS fails. In the Windows event logs of the machine being backed up, there is an error with ID 8193 from source VSS: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine Cannot find anymore diff area candidates for volume...

The vulnerability of Samba software allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality of protected information.

The vulnerability exists in Samba under certain settings of shadow copying vfs. It stems from an improper initialization of the SRVSNAPSHOTARRAY field. Exploiting this vulnerability allows remote users who have passed authentication to access confidential information from the process’s memory,...

Latest TeslaCrypt Targets New File Extensions, Invests Heavily in Evasion

TeslaCrypt, like many of its ransomware cousins, doesn’t sleep on past success. Researchers at Endgame Inc., have found two updates for the cryptoransomware in the past two weeks that invest heavily in obfuscation and evasion techniques, and also target a host of new file extensions. These sample...

Samba: Missing access control check in shadow copy code

A missing access control flaw was found in Samba. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to view the current snapshot on a Samba share, despite not having DIRECTORYLIST access rights...

Samba: Missing access control check in shadow copy code

A missing access control flaw was found in Samba. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to view the current snapshot on a Samba share, despite not having DIRECTORYLIST access rights...

Samba: Missing access control check in shadow copy code

A missing access control flaw was found in Samba. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to view the current snapshot on a Samba share, despite not having DIRECTORYLIST access rights...

Samba: Missing access control check in shadow copy code

A missing access control flaw was found in Samba. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to view the current snapshot on a Samba share, despite not having DIRECTORYLIST access rights...