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Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA12051
Release Date: 2004-07-13
Last Update: 2004-07-15
Popularity: 12,207 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

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Description:
Cesar Cerrudo has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The problem is that the Utility Manager invokes the help functionality ("winhlp32.exe") without dropping its privileges first. This can be exploited to execute an arbitrary application with SYSTEM privileges by sending a specially crafted message to the Utility Manager process.

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