CVE-2023-21800 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Microsoft	Windows Server 2008

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:-:sp2::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:sp1:::::x64:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21800

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00808}`	epss `{'score': 0.01343}`

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008_R2:6.1.7601.26366::::::x64: cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008_sp2:6.0.6003.21915::::::x64: cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008_sp2:6.0.6003.21915::::::x86:
Vendors & Products	Microsoft windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft windows Server 2008 Sp2

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2023-02-14T19:33:05.738Z

Updated: 2025-01-01T00:40:57.470Z

Reserved: 2022-12-16T22:13:41.239Z

Link: CVE-2023-21800

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T09:51:51.058Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-14T20:15:15.273

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:43:40.607

Link: CVE-2023-21800

Redhat

No data.

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