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

From Windows 2008 Domain Controller Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of Local admin accounts filtered token policy enabled on domain systems.

Associated with IA controls: ECLP-1

SV-47846r1_rule Local administrator accounts must have their privileged token filtered to prevent elevated privileges from being used over the network on domain systems.

Vulnerability 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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Configure the following registry value: Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Subkey: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Value Name: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy Type: REG_DWORD Value: 0

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