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Popular student engagement platform iClicker’s website was compromised with a ClickFix attack. A fake “I’m not a robot”…

**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.

Use of hard-coded credentials in Windows Hardware Lab Kit allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Improper authentication in Microsoft Defender for Identity allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Use after free in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

Out-of-bounds read in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?** The word **Remote** in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. For example, when the score indicates that the **Attack Vector** is **Local** and **User Interaction** is **Required**, this could describe an exploit in which an attacker, through social engineering, convinces a victim to download and open a specially crafted file from a website which leads to a local attack on their computer.

Improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges in Microsoft Dataverse allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Use after free in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.