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CVE-2014-1812

Microsoft Windows Group Policy Preferences Password Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Active Directory contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it distributes passwords that are configured using Group Policy preferences. An authenticated attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability could decrypt the passwords and use them to elevate privileges on the domain.

CVE evidence

Known exploitation

Listed in CISA KEV

Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.

Severity

unknown

No parseable CVSS vector returned

Affected packages

0

Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Catalog record

Vendor / project
Microsoft
Product
Windows
Date added
Nov 3, 2021
CISA federal remediation due date
May 3, 2022
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Known ransomware campaign use
Known
CWE
CWE-255

OSV package mapping

Affected open-source packages

OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.