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CVE-2023-21549 · Windows SMB Witness Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Severity
Important
Impact
Elevation of Privilege
CVSS
8.8 base · 7.7 temporal
Release
2023-01-10
Signals
Windows SMB Elevation of Privilege Exploited: No Publicly disclosed: Yes Exploitability: Exploitation Less Likely
CWE
CWE-285: Improper Authorization
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Description
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FAQ
How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability? To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could execute a specially crafted malicious script which executes an RPC call to an RPC host. This could result in elevation of privilege on the server.
FAQ
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute RPC functions that are restricted to privileged accounts only.