CVE detail
CVE-2014-1812 — Microsoft Windows Group Policy Preferences Password Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03 · Source kev
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.6512
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
99.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
LISTED
CISA KEV
due 2022-05-03
⚠ Actively exploited in the wild — CISA KEV listed 2021-11-03, federal remediation due 2022-05-03. RANSOMWARE
Description
Microsoft Windows Active Directory contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it distributes passwords that are configured using Group Policy preferences. An authenticated attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability could decrypt the passwords and use them to elevate privileges on the domain.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
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