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Local administrator accounts must have their privileged token filtered to prevent elevated privileges from being used over the network on domain systems.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-36439 WN12-RG-000003-MS SV-51590r2_rule Medium
Description
A compromised local administrator account can provide means for an attacker to move laterally between domain systems. With User Account Control enabled, filtering the privileged token for local administrator accounts will prevent the elevated privileges of these accounts from being used over the network.
STIG Date
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Member Server Security Technical Implementation Guide 2017-04-28

Details

Check Text ( None )
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Fix Text (F-44715r2_fix)
Configure the following registry value:

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path: \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Value Name: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy

Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0