CVE-2023-21752 - Privilege escalation

Urgent

Remediate Within one Week

CVE Information

Original CVE data

Published: January 10, 2023

Updated: April 27, 2023

Windows Backup Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CWE:

CVSS v2-

CVSS v37.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21752

Affected Vendors

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOⁿengine

Privilege escalation

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOⁿengine

CVSS v24.6

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v37.8

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

MITRE CWE Top 25

Exploits

Exploits are available either through exploit packs, Github repos or the world wide web in general.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1529 - System Shutdown/Reboot

T1499.004 - Endpoint Denial of Service (Application or System Exploitation)

T1203 - Exploitation for Client Execution

T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application