National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0080
Original release date:04/15/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The ThreadPool class in Windows Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008, does not properly implement isolation among a set of distinct processes that (1) all run under the NetworkService account or (2) all run under the LocalService account, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect thread ACLs to access the resources of one of the processes, aka "Windows Thread Pool ACL Weakness Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-104A
Name: TA09-104A
External Source: MS
Name: MS09-012
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1026
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022044
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6177
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 53668
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6177
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
