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 the vulnerability?
An attacker would only be able to delete targeted files on a system. They would not gain privileges to view or modify file contents.
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
10.0.17763.4131 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023702
10.0.20348.1607 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023705
10.0.20348.1602 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023786
10.0.19042.2728 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023696
10.0.10240.19805 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023713
10.0.14393.5786 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023697
6.2.9200.24168 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023756
6.2.9200.24168 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023752
6.3.9600.20865 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023765
6.3.9600.20865 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5023764
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows Accounts Picture Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Accounts Picture Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-23412 Windows Accounts Picture Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-23412
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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