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Security Advisory - Privilege Elevation Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Kerberos Key Distribution Center

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200909-01-windows
  • Initial Release Date: Sep 09, 2020
  • Last Release Date: Sep 09, 2020

Microsoft released a security bulletin MS14-068 to publicly disclose a vulnerability in in Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC). The vulnerability could allow an attacker to elevate unprivileged domain user account privileges to those of the domain administrator account. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-05164)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-6324.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200909-01-windows-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AnyOffice

Running affected Microsoft Windows versions

Follow the Microsoft security bulletin to install the patch for MS14-068

OceanStor Backup Software

Running affected Microsoft Windows versions

Follow the Microsoft security bulletin to install the patch for MS14-068

SMC2.0

Running affected Microsoft Windows versions

Follow the Microsoft security bulletin to install the patch for MS14-068

eLog

Running affected Microsoft Windows versions

Follow the Microsoft security bulletin to install the patch for MS14-068


Successful exploit will result in privilege elevation.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 8.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

The attacker gains the access of the affected products.

Vulnerability details:

The vulnerability could allow an attacker to elevate unprivileged domain user account privileges to those of the domain administrator account.

The Microsoft security bulletin MS14-068 is available at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-068


Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.

This vulnerability was disclosed by the Microsoft.


2020-09-09 V1.0 INITIAL


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