Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. 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?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
Security updates
10.0.20348.1487 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5022291
10.0.19042.2486 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5022282
10.0.22000.1455 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5022287
10.0.22621.1105 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5022303
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Local Session Manager (LSM) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Local Session Manager (LSM) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-21771 Windows Local Session Manager (LSM) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21771
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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