Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Work Folder Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way the Windows Work Folder Service handles file operations.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
E
Physical
RL
Unchanged
RC
Changed
Affected products
- Microsoft / Windows 101903 – 1903
- Microsoft / Windows 101709 – 1709
- Microsoft / windows_10_1507
- Microsoft / windows_10_1507
- Microsoft / windows_10_1607
- Microsoft / windows_10_1607
- Microsoft / windows_10_1803
- Microsoft / windows_10_1803
- Microsoft / windows_10_1809
- Microsoft / windows_10_1809
- Microsoft / windows_10_1809
- Microsoft / windows_10_1909
- Microsoft / windows_10_1909
- Microsoft / Windows 7
- Microsoft / Windows 7
- Microsoft / Windows 8.1
- Microsoft / Windows 8.1
- Microsoft / windows_rt_8.1
- Microsoft / windows_server_1903
- Microsoft / windows_server_1909
- Microsoft / windows_server_2004
- Microsoft / windows_server_2008_R2
- Microsoft / Windows Server 2012 R2
- Microsoft / Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft / Windows Server 2019