[Dailydave] wanted: run_as_low_integrity command on Vista?

[Joanna Rutkowska]

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Hi Andrew,

Indeed, it seems like you can use not only chml, but also new Vista's
icacls command to do that - i.e. to set the integrity level of an
executable to low and then, when started (from withing a processes
running at medium IL), the new process will run with low IL. But that
seems to work only if you are starting the process in the context of the
current user...

However, if one uses the runas command (or Mark's psexec) to start a
process as a different user, then the new process gets medium IL,
despite the fact that its executable is marked with "Low Mandatory
Level" ACE. Any idea why that happens?

Also, in [1] a method for starting a medium IL processes from within IE
running in Protected Mode (i.e. at low IL) is described - it requires
setting appropriate entries in the registry under
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\IE key.

The question is: is there any way to do that for other low integrity
processes, besides IE? E.g. I would like to allow my Thunderbird.exe
(running as low IL) to start gpg.exe at medium IL, without popping the
consent dialog box (as my Thunderbird typically starts gpg.exe a few
dozens of times every day)?

joanna.

[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ietechcol/dnwebgen/protectedmode.asp


Andrew Cushman wrote:
> Here's what Mark Russinovich said...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Russinovich 
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:27 AM
> To: Andrew Cushman
> Subject: RE: [Dailydave] wanted: run_as_low_integrity command on Vista?
> 
> 
> I'm going to add support for this to Process Explorer in the near
> future. In the meantime she can make a copy of cmd.exe and set its
> integrity level to low using Mark Minasi's Chml tool:
> http://www.minasi.com/vista/chml.htm
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dailydave-bounces at lists.immunitysec.com
> [mailto:dailydave-bounces at lists.immunitysec.com] On Behalf Of Joanna
> Rutkowska
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:24 AM
> To: dailydave
> Subject: [Dailydave] wanted: run_as_low_integrity command on Vista?
> 
> Does anybody know of any *off-the-shelf* tool/command that could be used
> to lunch a process in low integrity mode on Vista? Something like:
> 
> runaslow <progname> <args>
> 
> joanna.
> 
> BTW, I read this:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ietechc
> ol/dnwebgen/protectedmode.asp
> 
> and I think I know how to do that in C - it's just that I can't believe
> that MS (or at least Mark Russinovich) hasn't shipped such a tool...
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