RE: L0phtCrack and Windows 2000 LM Hashes

I would report it to @stake.  I have heard of something like this before
with l0phtcrack.  It couldn't hurt to report it.  Who knows, maybe they
already know of something like this and are planning to fix it in the
next release.


Tyran

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Mawer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:27 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: L0phtCrack and Windows 2000 LM Hashes

List,

My win2k box shows that three user-accounts on my windows 2000 machine 
report as being *empty*, <8 and 2 of the three share a NULL password LM
Hash 
of AAD3B435B51404EEAAD3B435B51404EE. The third hash is different and I
do 
not wish to report it here for what id deem obvious reasons.

The three accounts include Administrator and two other users. The
passwords 
are known and have been fed into a wordlist. Running LC3 repeats these 
results.

The Administrator account is most definitely not NULL, and the other two

accounts are not guest users. Attempting login with null password is
denied 
for all three accounts. LC3 is being run on the local machine.

1. Should I treat the box as compromised? Highly unlikely as there are 
enough alarms in place
2. Should I report my findings to @Stake, in the belief LC has a flaw?

Much appreciated,

Chris Mawer

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