CVE-2023-35351HighCVSS 6.6

Windows Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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

📋 Description

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An attacker with Certificate Authority (CA) read access permissions can send a specially crafted request to a vulnerable Certificate Server. By default, only domain administrators are granted CA read access.

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.

🎯 Affected products16

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5028168 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.17763.4645 KB5028171 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.1850 KB5028169 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.14393.6085 KB5028222 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.0.6003.22175 KB5028226 (Security Only) — fixed build 6.0.6003.22175 KB5028240 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.1.7601.26623 KB5028224 (Security Only) — fixed build 6.1.7601.26623 KB5028232 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.2.9200.24374 KB5028233 (Security Only) — fixed build 6.2.9200.24374 KB5028228 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.3.9600.21063 KB5028223 (Security Only) — fixed build 6.3.9600.21075

🔗 References (18)