CVE-1999-0496
HighExploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk69th percentile - higher than 69% of all known CVEs
Summary
A Windows NT 4.0 user can gain administrative rights by forcing NtOpenProcessToken to succeed regardless of the user's permissions.
Risk Assessment
This vulnerability allows unauthorized access to system resources, potentially leading to serious security breaches within the organization.
Recommendation
It is recommended to upgrade the system to a newer version and implement appropriate security measures to minimize the risk of unauthorized access.
Other vulnerabilities in Windows NT 4.0
See all- CVE-1999-1452Low
GINA in Windows NT 4.0 allows attackers with physical access to display a portion of the clipboard of the user who has locked the workstation by pasting (CTRL-V) the contents into the username prompt.
- CVE-1999-1132Medium
Windows NT 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via extra source routing data such as a Routing Information Field (RIF) field with a hop count greater than 7 or a list containing duplicate Token Ring IDs.
- CVE-1999-1127High
Windows NT 4.0 does not properly shut down invalid named pipe RPC connections, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a series of connections containing malformed data.
- CVE-1999-0994Medium
Windows NT with SYSKEY reuses the keystream used for encrypting SAM password hashes, allowing an attacker to crack passwords.
- CVE-1999-0987High
Windows NT improperly downloads a system policy if the domain user logs into the domain with a space at the end of the domain name.
- CVE-1999-1234Medium
LSA (LSASS.EXE) in Windows NT 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a NULL policy handle in calls to SamrOpenDomain, SamrEnumDomainUsers, and SamrQueryDomainInfo.
- CVE-2000-0328Medium
Windows NT 4.0 generates predictable random TCP initial sequence numbers (ISN), allowing remote attackers to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
- CVE-1999-0728High
A Windows NT user can disable the keyboard or mouse by directly calling the IOCTLs which control them.
- CVE-1999-0726High
An attacker can conduct a denial of service in Windows NT by executing a program with a malformed file image header.
- CVE-1999-0577High
A Windows NT system's file audit policy does not log an event success or failure for non-critical files or directories.
Original NVD description (English source)
A Windows NT 4.0 user can gain administrative rights by forcing NtOpenProcessToken to succeed regardless of the user's permissions, aka GetAdmin.