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GHSA-vx2x-9cff-fhjw json

DSInternals Credential Roaming Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

published 3y ago modified last yr.

cvss
6.3
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

### Impact

A vulnerability exists in the `DSInternals.Common.Data.RoamedCredential.Save()` method, which incorrectly parses the `msPKIAccountCredentials` LDAP attribute values. As a consequence, a malicious actor would be able to modify the file system of the computer where an application using this function is executed with administrative privileges.

A [similar security issue](https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-30170) used to be present in the Windows operating system, as DSInternals re-implements the Credential Roaming feature of Windows.

### Exploitability

The vulnerability can be exploited under the following circumstances: - An attacker is able to modify the `msPKIAccountCredentials` attribute of a user account in Active Directory. This attribute is used by the Credential Roaming feature of Windows and each AD user can modify their own roamed credentials. AND - A 3rd party application uses the `DSInternals.Common` library to export roamed credentials from Active Directory to a file system. AND - The application has administrative privileges on the local system.

The probability of any 3rd-party product using the `DSInternals.Common` library being affected by this vulnerability is extremely low.

### Patches

The issue had been fixed in DSInternals 4.8.

### References

https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/apt29-windows-credential-roaming

Patch / fix

  • nuget DSInternals.Common 4.8

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
nuget DSInternals.Common
>=2.21, <4.8
4.8

References

Sources

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