Microsoft Windows SMB Server privileges management

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Microsoft Windows. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component SMB Server. The manipulation leads to privileges management. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to update the configuration settings.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows (Operating System) (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component SMB Server. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 01/01/2002. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/24/2022). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11011 (Microsoft Windows SMB Service Detection), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context r.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting 445.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (11011) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-1155†). See VDB-88251 for similar entry. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/
• Product: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

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