Software Vulnerable Genius VideoCAM NB Driver http://download.geniusnet.com.tw/CAMERA/webnb.zip Other genius webcams with the same 'snapshot feature' might be affected with the same issue, if you have any of those please try to reproduce this issue. Affects: Windows XP / Windows 2000 Proof of concept (omg leet) http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5351/pwnt6qq.png Description This vuln is very similar to MS04-019 [1] , when you press the snapshot button on the webcam to take a picture, the snapshot viewer window appears, the problem is that this application is running with SYSTEM privileges,so you click file/save as, in the save as dialog you browse to X:\windows\system32\, type *.exe in the file name, then just right click and select open, a new shell with SYSTEM privileges appears. As you can see on the screenshot, there are two cmd.exe shells, one of those was started through the Run dialog, and the other through this vuln. To check the user privileges, I used whoami.exe from W32GnuUtils [2] [1] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-019.mspx [2] http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/350 (example exploit ms04-019) Vendor contacted Vendor Response: 1. Regarding the privilige problem, the limited user only can open the shell, they can't use another functions. 2. Regarding the privilege probelm, the limited user can open the shell but can't use the functions provided by shell. It should be reasonable. Moreover, the VideoCam NB has been phased out, our R&D won't pay more effort to it unless usage bug. Conclusion I'm not sure what they mean with "can't use the functions provided by shell". You only need to add a new admin user with the net command, or use pwdump to dump the pw hashes, or just install a backdoor/rootkit.