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Arrow  Topic :

Vulnerability in Credant Mobile Guardian Shield for Windows


Arrow  SecurityAlert : 2753
Arrow  CVE : CVE-2007-2883
Arrow  SecurityRisk : Medium  Security Risk Medium  (About)
Arrow  Remote Exploit : Yes
Arrow  Local Exploit : Yes
Arrow  Exploit Available : No
Arrow  Credit : Mike Iacovacci
Arrow  Published : 05.06.2007

Arrow  Affected Software : Credant Technologies 5.2.1.105 (and prior)



Arrow  Advisory Content :  

Vulnerability in Credant Mobile Guardian Shield for Windows

Vendor: Credant Technologies Inc. http://www.credant.com/

Product: Credant Mobile Guardian Shield for Windows

Version: 5.2.1.105 (and prior)

Affected Operating Systems: Windows XP SP2 (and likely others)

Product Overview:

Credant Technologies markets the Credant Mobile Guardian Shield for Windows
as part of their data security solution for mobile devices. The product is
installed on a mobile device (e.g. Laptop). The shield receives its policy
from a centralized server which dictates the encryption settings as defined
by the Credant administrator. Credant Technologies has trademarked their
encryption approach as ?Policy based Intelligent Encryption?; this means
that the product does not provide full disk encryption. This approach
allows the Credant administrator to dictate what files and directories are
to be encrypted e.g. All .doc files regardless of directory, and all files
in the ?My Documents? folder. By default, Credant does not encrypt the
paging file, operating system files, or slack space to improve
performance.

Vulnerability Details:

A serious security flaw is present in Credant Mobile Guardian Shield for
Windows versions 5.2.1.105 and prior. Several instances of the users
Windows Domain name, Domain username, and password are stored in plain text
within the memory (RAM) of the mobile device. This risk is compounded by
the fact that the Windows paging file is not encrypted per default
settings. The unencrypted paging file would likely contain the plain text
Windows Domain credentials as well.

Attack Scenario?s:

1) Offline attack: A lost or stolen device would allow as attacker to
search the paging file with the goal of obtaining the plaintext Domain
credentials, once obtained the attacked could simply boot the device and
login thereby gaining complete access to the encrypted data.

2) Online attack: An attacker could create a malicious program which upon
execution would dump the active memory image / or locate the area in memory
where the password is stored and retrieve it. The memory image or password
could then be sent over a network to the attacker.

Methodology:

To reproduce and confirm the findings a clean Windows XP SP2 build without
Credant Mobile Guardian Shield for Windows was installed, a dump and search
of the memory for the plaintext domain password yielded no matches (ruling
out the Windows OS). Credant Mobile Guardian Shield software version
5.2.1.105 was then loaded. The memory was dumped and searched following a
reboot and Domain login, the password was stored (multiple times) in
plaintext within memory.

Workarounds:

Contact vendor for patch 5.2.1.125

Credit:

Mike Iacovacci





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