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"Ransomware gangs will be quick to use this in their attacks and previously compromised low-value desktops could be used to take control of the entire Windows estate using this bug to then deliver their malware." He added: "It works from any domain user to exploit any network server using the print spooler service, which is enabled by default on domain controllers. Disable "Print Spooler" service on servers that do not require it.
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He told us the exploit works "on a fully patched and updated (as of yesterday) Windows 2019 domain controller," as seen on Hickey's posted screenshot of his test system with "the exploit being used."įully patched Windows 2019 domain controller, popped with 0day exploit (CVE-2021-1675) from a regular Domain User's account giving full SYSTEM privileges.
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Matthew “Hacker Fantastic” Hickey told The Register: "In my opinion this is the most significant incident to happen to Windows enterprise systems this year and people need to prioritize disabling the print spooler service on domain controllers and mission critical servers to prevent exploitation of this issue. Informed infosec people on Twitter have suggested sysadmins should disable the Windows print spool service as an immediate mitigation for PrintNightmare.
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That unpatched bug has been dubbed PrintNightmare, and will likely need a separate update from Microsoft to fully address it. The exploit code they released targets a bug that's similar to but not quite CVE-2021-1675, and now it's out in the wild for miscreants to use to commandeer networks. Then on June 21, with no explanation, that classification was upped by Microsoft to a more serious remote-code execution vuln.Ī group of security researchers, upon seeing that the bug had been upgraded in severity, decided they may as well release their proof-of-concept exploit for a remote-code execution hole in the print spooler service, presumably thinking it was now patched.
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This security hole could be exploited by a normal user to execute code as an administrator on a system running the print spooler service.
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Rewind to June 8's Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft issued a fix for CVE-2021-1675, which was labeled a privilege-escalation vulnerability. An infosec firm accidentally published a proof-of-concept exploit for a critical Windows print spooler vulnerability that can be abused by rogue users to compromise Active Directory domain controllers.