<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists because of overly permissive Access Control Lists (ACLs) on multiple system files, including the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.</p>
<p>An attacker must have the ability to execute code on a victim system to exploit this vulnerability.</p>
<p>After installing this security update, you <em>must</em> manually delete all shadow copies of system files, including the SAM database, to fully mitigate this vulnerabilty. <strong>Simply installing this security update will not fully mitigate this vulnerability.</strong> See <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/topic/1ceaa637-aaa3-4b58-a48b-baf72a2fa9e7">KB5005357- Delete Volume Shadow Copies</a>.</p>
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: microsoft
Published: 2021-07-22T07:05:12.000Z
Updated: 2025-10-21T23:25:40.056Z
Reserved: 2021-07-19T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2021-36934
Updated: 2024-08-04T01:09:06.213Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-07-22T07:15:11.013
Modified: 2025-10-22T00:17:40.457
Link: CVE-2021-36934
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