- Vendor / Project
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Date added
- Feb 10, 2022
- Due date
- Feb 24, 2022
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWEs
- CWE-1220
Description
If a Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) shadow copy of the system drive is available, users can read the SAM file which would allow any user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM level.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.