=====[ Tempest Security Intelligence - ADV-20/2018 ]===

10-Strike Network Monitor 5.4 - Unquoted Service Path
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Author:
- Filipe Xavier Oliveira: < filipe.xavier () tempest.com.br

=====[ Table of Contents
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* Overview
* Detailed description
* Timeline of disclosure
* Thanks & Acknowledgements
* References

=====[ Overview
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* System affected : 10-Strike Network Monitor [1]
* Software Version : 5.4. Other versions or models may also be affected.
* Impact : Allow an authorized but non-privileged local user to execute
arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the system. If an attacker
could copy a malicious file and place it on, for example, into the root
directory. This would cause windows to run the malicious executable in
the user context of the service account at the next service start.

=====[ Detailed description
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Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the srvInventoryWebServer
service in
10-Strike Network Monitor 5.4 allows local users to gain privileges via
a malicious artefact.
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[Additional Information]
C:\Windows\system32>sc qc srvInventoryWebServer
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS
SERVICE_NAME: srvInventoryWebServer
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\Program Files\10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer
Pro\InventoryWebServer.exe
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : srvInventoryWebServer
DEPENDENCIES :
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem

=====[ Timeline of disclosure
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10/19/2017 - Vendor was informed of the vulnerability.
01/02/2018 - Vendor did not respond.
01/22/2018 - CVE assigned [2]
03/06/2018 - Advisory publication date.

=====[ Thanks & Acknowledgements
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- Tempest Security Intelligence / Tempest's Pentest Team [3]

=====[ References
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[1] - https://www.10-strike.com/
[2] - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6016
[3] - http://tempest.com.br

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Filipe Oliveira
Tempest Security Intelligence