MSRC-CVE-2021-42280 — Windows Feedback Hub Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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 the vulnerability?
An attacker would only be able to delete targeted files on a system. They would not gain privileges to view or modify file contents.

Security updates
10.0.17763.2300 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007206
10.0.18363.1916 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007189
10.0.19043.1348 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007186
10.0.20348.350 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007205
10.0.22000.318 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007215
10.0.14393.4770 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007192

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 5.5

CVE-2021-42280

Windows Feedback Hub Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Feedback Hub Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows 10 Version 1809 Windows

Nov 10, 2021

Revision history

2021-11-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2021-42280 Windows Feedback Hub Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42280
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss