Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is high (PR:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires the attacker or targeted user to have both domain user and delegate management permissions on a non-default DFS namespace.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could exploit a DFS namespace (non-default) out-of-bound write vulnerability that results in heap corruption, which could then be used to perform arbitrary code execution on the server's dfssvc.exe process which runs as SYSTEM user.
According to the CVSS metric, attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
In a real-world attack scenario, a domain admin would have to configure their DFS namespace in such a way to add a low privileged domain user to the delegate management permission on a certain DFS namespace.
In essence, a successful exploitation of this vulnerability would require a non-default and unlikely configuration.
According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
Security updates
10.0.17763.5122 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032196
10.0.20348.2113 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032198
10.0.20348.2091 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032304
10.0.22000.2600 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032192
10.0.19043.3693 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032189
10.0.22621.2715 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032190
10.0.25398.531 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032202
10.0.10240.20308 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032199
10.0.14393.6452 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032197
6.0.6003.22367 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032254
6.0.6003.22367 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032248
6.1.7601.26816 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032252
6.1.7601.26816 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032250
6.2.9200.24569 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032247
6.3.9600.21668 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032249
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.0
Windows Distributed File System (DFS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Windows Distributed File System (DFS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2023-36425 Windows Distributed File System (DFS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36425
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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