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CVE-2014-1812

high · 8.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2021-11-03Remediation due 2022-05-03

The Group Policy implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 does not properly handle distribution of passwords, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive credential information and consequently gain privileges by leveraging access to the SYSVOL share, as exploited in the wild in May 2014, aka "Group Policy Preferences Password Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

8.8
CVSS
64.9%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2014-05-14
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-255CWE-522

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftwindows_7all versions
microsoftwindows_8all versions
microsoftwindows_8.1all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008r2
microsoftwindows_server_2008r2
microsoftwindows_server_2012all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2012r2
microsoftwindows_vistaall versions

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References

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