1. I didn't find an explanation about this behavior that deals with installation password, although this LSA Secret is well known to contain passwords, mainly from Windows XP era. Could you provide a link? It also hasn't been fixed in Window 8 released this year. 2. You could e.g. retrieve a password from one vulnerable machine (where physical access or admin shell is possible) and use it against more secure ones sharing same admin password, typically when a Windows image is replicated over a network to multiple machines. Anyhow, having a cleartext password residue somewhere without documentation looks like a sad bug to me. Xavier On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Rob <synja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Two things: > 1. This was made public sometime in 2012 or earlier IIRC. > 2. Exploiting this requires the same permission levels that would be > required to change or access the password anyway. Where's the realistic > security threat? > > Rob >
