Thank you Jeff.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:JLightner AT water DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 5:02 PM
To: Preston, Douglas; Reynolds, Susan K.;
'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: RE: Unquoted path vulnerability

Looks like this document disucsses the exploit in general.

http://www.tenable.com/sites/drupal.dmz.tenablesecurity.com/files/sc-rep
ort-files/Microsoft%20Windows%20Unquoted%20Service%20Path%20Enumeration.
pdf

It appears someone solved a similar issue as described here:
http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/69268/the-remote-windows-host-has-
at-least-one-service-installed-that-uses-an-unquoted-service-path

Based on what is written in that latter it appears you might be able to
solve this more specifically by searching in your registry for the
INET/Netbackup thing it is complaining about and putting double quotes
around it rather than the hack suggested below.





-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Preston,
Douglas
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 4:54 PM
To: 'Reynolds, Susan K.'; 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unquoted path vulnerability

I went through and updated all my registry entries that had C:\Program
Files\ to C:\Progra~1\ This fixes the issue.  I run on a 32 bit OS, on a
64bit OS the 1 in progra~1 may be a different number.

The real problem is that a person could create a folder called Program
and load an executable called Fileswhatever in there and the path of the
service not being quoted may look in c:\Program\ instead of "c:\Program
Files\"

Doug Preston

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
Reynolds, Susan K.
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 1:45 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Unquoted path vulnerability

Has anyone heard of this being a security issue before:


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The remote Windows host has at least one service installed that uses an
unquoted service path, which contains at least one whitespace.  A local
attacker could gain elevated privileges by inserting an executable file
in the path of the affected service.

Ensure that any services that contain a space in the path enclose the
path in quotes.

Nessus found the following service with an untrusted path:
  NetBackup INET Daemon : C:\Program
Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpinetd.exe

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