CVE-2023-21725HighCVSS 6.3

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
January 10, 2023
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to no loss of confidentiality (C:N) but have major impact on integrity (I:H) and on availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? This vulnerability does not allow disclosure of any confidential information, but could allow an attacker to delete data that could include data that results in the service being unavailable.

🎯 Affected products2

  • Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 32-bit
  • Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 64-bit

✅ Remediation

KB891716 (Security Update) — fixed build 5.109.19957.1

🔗 References (3)