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Re: Abusing Windows 7 Recovery Process
From: Grandma Eubanks <tborland1 () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:04 -0500
"If you have non-administrator credentials that get you past the bootloader or the entire boot process hasn't been made secure" Aside from this, the scenario I've always seen: 1.) Home/regular user that doesn't know/care 2.) Paranoid user or company machine employing full disk encryption However, I think this is still interesting. It's been a while since I've played with Windows boxes and won't have access to one for a couple days, but isn't this triggering off of vendor supplied recovery partitions? This is a regular Windows 7 sole partition box you tried this one? On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:54 AM, sec <sec () whatsploit me> wrote:
If you're not able to boot from another OS because the firmware is locked down, booting from removable media is disabled, and a software crypto product is installed, this is a handy way to bypass all that. If you have non-administrator credentials that get you past the bootloader or the entire boot process hasn't been made secure, this is an extremely trivial exploit requiring no special tools. I'm making the assumption that the software (or hardware?) crypto is correctly tied to that machine's TPM to prevent removing the disk and booting it on another machine. Depending on the exact configuration of the target machine, this would enable the retrieval of sensitive data assumed to be secure, or else insertion of a trusted machine with malicious payload into a secure environment. I can think of quite a few environments I've encountered where all of the above assumptions stand. On 2013-06-29 14:49:16 (+0200), Alex wrote:Or just add an account to SAM file with local admin privs (while bootingfrom another OS). Nothing new or special imo.Am 2013-06-28 19:46, schrieb Anastasios Monachos:Hi List;The following may be of interest:http://intelcomms.blogspot.com/2013/05/owning-windows-7-from-recovery-to-nt.html[http://intelcomms.blogspot.com/2013/05/owning-windows-7-from-recovery-to-nt.html]in particular to those performing physical attacks on Windows 7. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Abusing Windows 7 Recovery Process Cool Hand Luke (Jun 30)
- Re: Abusing Windows 7 Recovery Process sec (Jun 29)
- Re: Abusing Windows 7 Recovery Process Alex (Jun 29)