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CVE-2020-1472

Microsoft Netlogon Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2021-11-03. Federal due date: 2022-05-03.

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Impact

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller, using the Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run a specially crafted application on a device on the network. To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker would be required to use MS-NRPC to connect to a domain controller to obtain domain administrator access. Microsoft is addressing the vulnerability in a phased two-part rollout. These updates address the vulnerability by modifying how Netlogon handles the usage of Netlogon secure channels. For guidelines on how to manage the changes required for this vulnerability and more information on the phased rollout, see How to manage the changes in Netlogon secure channel connections associated with CVE-2020-1472 (updated September 28, 2020). When the second phase of Windows updates become available in Q1 2021, customers will be notified via a revision to this security vulnerability. If you wish to be notified when these updates are released, we recommend that you register for the security notifications mailer to be alerted of content changes to this advisory. See Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 1903
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 1909
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 2004
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008
Version r2
MicrosoftWindows Server 2012
All versions
Version r2
MicrosoftWindows Server 2016
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 2019
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 20h2
All versions
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 31, 32, 33
OpensuseLeap
Versions 15.1, 15.2
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
SynologyDirectory Server
before 4.4.5-0101

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