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**According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability has a high impact on availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** An attacker can send specially crafted messages to the MSMQ service, which could affect availability of the service and result in Denial of Service (DoS).

**Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability?** Yes, the Preview Pane is an attack vector.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is adjacent (AV:A) and privileges required are low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Multiple networking topologies are available to connect High Performance Compute (HPC) resources which are reliant upon intra-nets or private networks and do not expose HPC resources to the public internet regardless of implementation. An attacker must have access to the network connecting the targeted clusters and nodes (PR:L) and must send a specially crafted HTTPS request to the head node (AV:A) to successfully exploit this vulnerability. For more information on how HPC resources can be connected, please reference this documentation regarding Understanding HPC Cluster Network Topologies.

**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.

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

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