full-disclosure - Re: Windows XP Home LSA secrets stores XP login passphrase in plain text

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Date: Fri May  5 20:59:08 2006
From: seemyhomepage at katsokotisivuilta.ni (Markus Jansson)
Subject: Re: Windows XP Home LSA secrets stores XP login
 passphrase in plain text

Heh, couple minor corrections to the original post:

  > Now, let me clear few things up, ok:
> - Im not talking about bruteforcing NL/NTLM/NTLMv2/NT hashes.

Im ofcourse talking about LM/NTLM/NTLMv2/NT hashes.

> - HOWEVER, if you can actually GET the users password (he is currently 
> using) the way Im talking about now, you can do a lot of harm with that. 
> You can, for example, decrypt all EFS encrypted files in normal 
> situations (since users EFS privatekey is encrypted using users 
> passphrase).

Ofcourse XP Home edition does not have EFS at all, but this attack/bug 
is also present in some XP Pro.


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