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Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 83 vulnerabilities across the company’s hardware and software line.
Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 83 vulnerabilities across the company’s hardware and software line.
Metro UI v4.4.0 to v4.5.0 was discovered to contain a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the Javascript function.
**What privileges could an attacker gain?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
**What privileges could an attacker gain?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
**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 an attacker gain?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
**What privileges could an attacker gain?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability would be able to remotely read registry keys under HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\SecurePipeServers\\Winreg\\AllowedExactPaths\\Machine not normally accessible to a normal user.
**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is the contents of Kernel memory. An attacker could read the contents of Kernel memory from a user mode process.