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 create or delete files in the security context of the “NT AUTHORITY\ LOCAL SERVICE” account.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability does not impact confidentiality (C:N) but has major impact on integrity (I:H) and availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability cannot access existing files (C:N) but can write or overwrite file contents (I:H), which potentially may cause the system to become unavailable (A:H).
Security updates
6.1.7601.26664 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029296
6.1.7601.26664 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029307
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.1
Reliability Analysis Metrics Calculation (RacTask) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Reliability Analysis Metrics Calculation (RacTask) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Acknowledgement added. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-36876 Reliability Analysis Metrics Calculation (RacTask) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36876
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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