CVE-2020-1013 — Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows processes group policy updates. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentia…
Published: 2020-09-11 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows processes group policy updates. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially escalate permissions or perform additional privileged actions on the target machine.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to launch a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack against the traffic passing between a domain controller and the target machine. An attacker could then create a group policy to grant administrator rights to a standard user.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by enforcing Kerberos authentication for certain calls over LDAP.</p>
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7