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Bug in Nessus ID : 10430
Hi there

I am having Nessus 2.2.3 with todays plugins report that on a fully
patched WinXP SP2 workstation:

"The following registry keys are writable by users who are not in the
admin group - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"

I went in with regedit and it's not. Only SYSTEM and the Administrators
group had full control. A couple of others had READ, and CREATOR OWNER
had "Special".

I think I reported one similar to this (another Registry key perm issue)
a few weeks ago? Probably the same cause?

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Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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Re: Bug in Nessus ID : 10430 [ In reply to ]
On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:46 PM, Jason Haar wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I am having Nessus 2.2.3 with todays plugins report that on a fully
> patched WinXP SP2 workstation:
>
> "The following registry keys are writable by users who are not in the
> admin group - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
>
> I went in with regedit and it's not. Only SYSTEM and the
> Administrators group had full control. A couple of others had READ,
> and CREATOR OWNER had "Special".
>
> I think I reported one similar to this (another Registry key perm
> issue) a few weeks ago? Probably the same cause?
>

Yes. It should be fixed soon.

Nicolas