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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2016-3223 EUVD-2016-4261GHSA-8wqf-xx2r-cp34

Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.…

Published Jun 16, 2016 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by microsoft

Description

Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 mishandle LDAP authentication, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to gain privileges by modifying group-policy update data within a domain-controller data stream, aka "Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

GitHub 1 repository

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