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 who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain specific limited SYSTEM privileges.
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.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
This vulnerability could allow a standard domain user to delete arbitrary files and folders with system privileges. This could be achieved when "Folder preference - delete" is configured and the user has write access, allowing them to set a reparse point.
Security updates
10.0.17763.4499 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027222
10.0.20348.1787 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027225
10.0.20348.1784 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027319
10.0.22000.2057 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027223
10.0.19044.3086 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027215
10.0.22621.1848 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027231
10.0.10240.19983 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027230
10.0.14393.5989 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027219
6.0.6003.22113 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027279
6.0.6003.22113 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027277
6.1.7601.26564 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027275
6.1.7601.26564 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027256
6.2.9200.24314 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027283
6.2.9200.24314 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027281
6.3.9600.21013 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027271
6.3.9600.21013 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027282
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1
Windows Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-29351 Windows Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29351
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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