Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to no loss of confidentiality (C:N) but have major impact on integrity (I:H) and on availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
This vulnerability does not allow disclosure of any confidential information, but could allow an attacker to delete data that could include data that results in the service being unavailable.
Security updates
5.109.19957.1 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/891716
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.3
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Updated acknowledgment. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-21725 Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21725
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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