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CVE-2023-28250 · Windows Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Severity
Critical
Impact
Remote Code Execution
CVSS
9.8 base · 8.5 temporal
Release
2023-04-11
Signals
Windows PGM Remote Code Execution Exploited: No Publicly disclosed: No Exploitability: Exploitation Less Likely
CWE
CWE-191: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
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Description
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Mitigation
Mitigation refers to a setting, common configuration, or general best-practice, existing in a default state, that could reduce the severity of exploitation of a vulnerability. The following mitigating factors might be helpful in your situation: The Windows message queuing service, which is a Windows component, needs to be enabled for a system to be exploitable by this vulnerability. This feature can be added via the Control Panel. You can check to see if there is a service running named Message Queuing and TCP port 1801 is listening on the machine.
FAQ
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? When Windows message queuing service is running in a PGM Server environment, an attacker could send a specially crafted file over the network to achieve remote code execution and attempt to trigger malicious code.