V-278178

Discussion

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.

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This applies to member servers. For domain controllers and stand-alone or nondomain-joined systems, this is not applicable.

If the following registry value does not exist or is not configured as specified, this is a finding:

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Value NameLocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy

TypeREG_DWORD
Value: 0x00000000 (0)

This setting may cause issues with some network scanning tools if local administrative accounts are used remotely. Scans must use domain accounts where possible. If a local administrative account must be used, temporarily enabling the privileged token by configuring the registry value to "1" may be required.