CVE-2023-29347HighCVSS 8.7

Windows Admin Center Spoofing Vulnerability

Published
July 11, 2023
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Where can customer obtain the updated software? Customers can download the latest build of Windows Admin Center by using this link: aka.ms/downloadwac

According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability? The vulnerability is in the web server, but the malicious scripts execute in the victim’s browser on their machine.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by carrying out any one of the following actions: Importing a malicious script to the Windows Admin Center (WAC) HTML form. Importing a .csv file using the Windows Admin Center (WAC) user interface. Importing a .csv file using the Windows Admin Center (WAC) API. If the victim who triggers the attack is a highly-privileged administrator the injected scripts could perform operations on the WAC server, thus spoofing the WAC application with the privileges of the victim administrator.

🎯 Affected products1

  • Windows Admin Center

✅ Remediation

KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 2306

🔗 References (2)