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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2020-1013

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows processes group policy updates. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially escalate permissions or perform additional privileged actions on the target machine.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to launch a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack against the traffic passing between a domain controller and the target machine. An attacker could then create a group policy to grant administrator rights to a standard user.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by enforcing Kerberos authentication for certain calls over LDAP.</p>

Affected products

13
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
    Range: 10.0.0
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
    Range: 10.0.0
  • Microsoft/Windows 10v52 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: 10.0.0
    • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: 10.0.0
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*range: 10.0.0
    • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*range: 10.0.0
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1909:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
    Range: 10.0.0
  • Microsoft/Windows 7v52 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:x64:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:x64:*range: 6.1.0
    • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:x86:*range: 6.1.0
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
    Range: 6.3.0
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    Range: 6.2.0
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: 10.0.0
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: 10.0.0

Patches

0

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