#Security Vulnerability

**Are there any special conditions necessary for this vulnerability to be exploitable?** Yes. This vulnerability is only exploitable if the MaxReceiveBuffer LDAP policy is set to a value higher than the default value. Systems with the default value of this policy would not be vulnerable. For more information, please see LDAP policies.

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by convincing a user to connect a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) client to a malicious LDAP server. When the vulnerability is successfully exploited this could allow the malicious server to gain remote code execution within the LDAP client.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to gather information specific to the environment of the targeted component.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** An attacker that successfully exploited this vulnerability could recover plaintext passwords and usernames from log files.

**Why is this Intel CVE included in the Security Update Guide?** The vulnerability assigned to this CVE is in certain processor models offered by Intel. The mitigation for this vulnerability requires a firmware update, and a corresponding Windows updates enables the mitigation. This CVE is being documented in the Security Update Guide to announce that the latest builds of Windows enable the mitigation and are not vulnerable to the issue when paired with the firmware update. Please see the following for more information: * Microsoft Advisory 220002 * Intel-SA-00615

**Why is this Intel CVE included in the Security Update Guide?** The vulnerability assigned to this CVE is in certain processor models offered by Intel. The mitigation for this vulnerability requires a firmware update, and a corresponding Windows updates enables the mitigation. This CVE is being documented in the Security Update Guide to announce that the latest builds of Windows enable the mitigation and are not vulnerable to the issue when paired with the firmware update. Please see the following for more information: * Microsoft Advisory 220002 * Intel-SA-00615