Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What is the action required to take the update?
You need to update to the latest Microsoft Defender for IoT software version. See the Update the software version section of Manage the on-premises management console.
Microsoft Defender for IoT is a unified security solution for identifying IoT/OT devices, vulnerabilities, and threats. It enables you to secure your entire IoT/OT environment, whether you need to protect existing IoT/OT devices or build security into new IoT innovations. See Microsoft Defender for IoT for more information.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker must be an authenticated user logged in on the targeted Defender for IOT Management Console in order to exploit this vulnerability.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker must authenticate and be assigned the role of a Security Analyst or Administrator to exploit this vulnerability.
Security updates
22.3.6 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-iot/organizations/release-notes#versions-223x
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#3
Added an FAQ and updated the CVSS score. This is an informational change only.
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#2
Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-23379 Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-23379
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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