Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite arbitrary file content in the security context of the local system.
Security updates
10.0.17134.2087 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000809
10.0.17763.1817 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000822
10.0.18363.1440 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000808
10.0.19043.867 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000802
10.0.10240.18874 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000807
10.0.14393.4283 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000803
6.1.7601.24566 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000841
Security Only — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000851
6.3.9600.19968 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000848
Security Only — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000853
6.0.6003.21070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000844
Security Only — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000856
6.2.9200.23298 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000847
Security Only — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000840
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2021-1640 Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-1640
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss