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High MSRC-CVE-2022-26913 1 CVE

Windows Authentication Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published May 10, 2022 · Updated May 10, 2022

Summary

Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker must inject themselves into the logical network path between the target and the resource requested by the victim to read or modify network communications. This is called a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could carry out a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack and could decrypt and read or modify TLS traffic between the client and server. There is no impact to the availability of the attacked machine (A:N).

Security updates
10.0.17763.2928 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5013941
10.0.18363.2274 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5013945
10.0.19043.1706 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5013942
10.0.20348.707 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5013944
10.0.22000.675 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5013943

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