If you ask for STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED, you may as well ask for the moon
One of the predefined security access masks is
STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED.
You see it used in defining the _ALL_ACCESS masks for
various objects.
Here are just a few examples:
#define PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS (STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED | SYNCHRONIZE | \
0xFFF)
#define EVENT_ALL_ACCESS (STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED|SYNCHRONIZE|0x3)
#define FILE_ALL_ACCESS (STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED | SYNCHRONIZE | 0x1FF)
The STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED mask is meant to be used
when defining access masks for object types.
I'm guessing it's called STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED because
it's the set of access masks that all securable objects must support.
Look at the documentation
or just at the definition:
#define DELETE (0x00010000L)
#define READ_CONTROL (0x00020000L)
#define WRITE_DAC (0x00040000L)
#define WRITE_OWNER (0x00080000L)
#define STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED (0x000F0000L)
Notice that STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED is just
an abbreviation for the union of the four access bits
DELETE | READ_CONTROL | WRITE_DAC | WRITE_OWNER.
Now that you see what it's for,
you can also see what it's not for:
You're not expected to pass it as the mask of requested
access bits when you attempt to open an object.
In other words, the following is wrong:
// wrong!
HANDLE hProcess =
OpenProcess(dwProcessId, FALSE,
STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED | PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION);
The person writing this code probably thought,
"Well, I just want to be able to query information, so I need to
pass PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION.
There's this other thing here called STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED;
since it's required, I'll pass that too."
The "required"ness of STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED doesn't
apply to you, the program opening the object.
It applies to the person who is designing the object.
Your attempt to be a "good security citizen" and ask only for the
access you need (namely, PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION)
has backfired due to the addition of STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED.
If you ask for
STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED,
you are asking for everything.
Why is that?
Notice that STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED includes
WRITE_DAC.
If you have WRITE_DAC permission, that means that you
have permission to
change the security descriptor on the object,
at which point you totally 0wnz0r it.
You want PROCESS_VM_WRITE access but the security
descriptor doesn't let you?
No problem.
Just set a new security descriptor that grants you
PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS to the process object.
Tada! You now have all the access in the world.
Moral of the story:
Don't ask for STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED,
because only somebody with full control will be able to get it.
Ask for what you actually want.
