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High MSRC-CVE-2023-35340 1 CVE

Windows CNG Key Isolation Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Jul 11, 2023 · Updated Jul 11, 2023

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.

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

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.

Security updates
10.0.17763.4645 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028168
10.0.20348.1850 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028171
10.0.22000.2176 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028182
10.0.19044.3208 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028166
10.0.22621.1992 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028185
10.0.10240.20048 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028186
10.0.14393.6085 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028169
6.0.6003.22175 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028222
6.0.6003.22175 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028226
6.1.7601.26623 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028240
6.1.7601.26623 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028224
6.2.9200.24374 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028232
6.2.9200.24374 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028233
6.3.9600.21063 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028228
6.3.9600.21075 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5028223

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