MSRC-CVE-2023-21800 — Windows Installer 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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

Security updates
6.0.6003.21915 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5022890
6.0.6003.21915 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5022893
6.1.7601.26366 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5022872
6.1.7601.26366 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5022874

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2023-21800

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation) Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Windows

Feb 14, 2023

Revision history

2023-02-14 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-21800 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21800
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