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High MSRC-CVE-2023-36004 1 CVE

Windows DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) Spoofing Vulnerability

Published Dec 12, 2023 · Updated Dec 12, 2023

Summary

Impact: Spoofing. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker must inject themselves into the logical network path between the target and the resource requested by the victim to read or modify network communications. This is called a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required are none (PR:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An unauthorized attacker must wait for a user to initiate a connection.

What is the attack vector for this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to launch a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack against the traffic passing between a domain controller and the target machine.

Security updates
10.0.17763.5206 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033371
10.0.20348.2159 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033118
10.0.20348.2144 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033464
10.0.22000.2652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033369
10.0.19041.3803 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033372
10.0.22621.2861 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033375
10.0.25398.584 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033383
10.0.10240.20345 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033379
10.0.14393.6529 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033373
6.0.6003.22413 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033422
6.0.6003.22413 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033427
6.1.7601.26864 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033433
6.1.7601.26864 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033424
6.2.9200.24614 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033429
6.3.9600.21715 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033420

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