Vigil@nce: Windows 2000, 2003, 2008: denial of service via Kerberos
February 2010 by Vigil@nce
An authenticated attacker can generate a denial of service on the
domain controller.
– Severity: 2/4
– Consequences: denial of service of computer, denial of service of
service
– Provenance: intranet client
– Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack
– Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)
– Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)
– Creation date: 10/02/2010
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
– Microsoft Windows 2000
– Microsoft Windows 2003
– Microsoft Windows 2008
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
A domain controller (Active Directory) uses the Kerberos protocol.
According to the Kerberos protocol, when a user wants to
authenticate on a computer, it asks a TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket)
to the KDC (AD) server. The user has to use a valid password to
decrypt this TGT, which is for example valid during 8 hours. The
computer can then ask the KDC to renew the TGT.
However, if the renewal query is malformed, and is sent to a
server configured in mixed mode, an error occurs and stops the
system.
An authenticated attacker can therefore generate a denial of
service on the domain controller.
CHARACTERISTICS
– Identifiers: 977290, BID-38110, CVE-2010-0035, MS10-014,
VIGILANCE-VUL-9437
– Url: http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Windows-2000-2003-2008-denial-of-service-via-Kerberos-9437