NetectAgentAdmin$ Password Disclosure Vulnerability

vendor:

HackerShield

by:

Paul Ashton

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Password Disclosure Vulnerability

255

CWE

Product Name: HackerShield

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows NT

2001

NetectAgentAdmin$ Password Disclosure Vulnerability

The BindView HackerShield product (originally Netect's HackerShield) creates an NT service account called NetectAgentAdmin$. This account is a member of the local administrators group on an NT host. The service account password is not machine specific, nor is it randomly generated. The password is fourteen characters long and includes non-printable ascii characters, therefore, password cracking tools like L0phtcrack may not be able to fully display the password. Using Paul Ashton's LSA secrets code against a Service Pack 3 machine with HackerShield installed, it is possible to recover the plaintext password for this account. As this password is the same for every HackerShield installation, an attacker could use this username / password combination to remotely access other NT hosts running the HackerShield product.

Mitigation:

Ensure that the NetectAgentAdmin$ account is disabled or removed from the system.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/628/info

The BindView HackerShield product (originally Netect's HackerShield) creates an NT service account called NetectAgentAdmin$. This account is a member of the local administrators group on an NT host. The service account password is not machine specific, nor is it randomly generated. The password is fourteen characters long and includes non-printable ascii characters, therefore, password cracking tools like L0phtcrack <www.L0pht.com> may not be able to fully display the password.

Using Paul Ashton's LSA secrets code <https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/231.html> against a Service Pack 3 machine with HackerShield installed, it is possible to recover the plaintext password for this account. As this password is the same for every HackerShield installation, an attacker could use this username / password combination to remotely access other NT hosts running the HackerShield product. 

The first twelve characters of the NetectAgentAdmin$ account password are: np7m4qM1M7VT

the thirteenth character is a <tab>

the fourteenth character is an equal sign <=>

making the entire password: np7m4qM1M7VT<tab>=

this password can be entered from the command line with quotation marks around it.

net use \\172.16.1.101\ipc$ "np7m4qM1M7VT =" /user:172.16.1.101\netectagentadmin$