Windows Credential Manager User Interface Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Credential Manager User Interface Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
The storage of passwords in a recoverable format makes them subject to password reuse attacks by malicious users. In fact, it should be noted that recoverable encrypted passwords provide no significant benefit over plaintext passwords since they are subject not only to reuse by malicious attackers but also by malicious insiders. If a system administrator can recover a password directly, or use a brute force search on the available information, the administrator can use the password on other accounts.
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/257.html →Open in CWE collection →An adversary tries every possible value for a password until they succeed. A brute force attack, if feasible computationally, will always be successful because it will essentially go through all possible passwords given the alphabet used (lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) and the maximum length of the password.
https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/49.html →Open in CAPEC collection →| Product | Vendor | Status |
|---|---|---|
| windows_10_1607 | * | Tracked |
| windows_10_1809 | * | Tracked |
| windows_10_20h2 | * | Tracked |
| windows_10_21h2 | * | Tracked |
| windows_10_22h2 | * | Tracked |
| windows_11_21h2 | * | Tracked |
| windows_11_22h2 | * | Tracked |
| windows_7 | * | Tracked |
| windows_8.1 | * | Tracked |
| windows_rt_8.1 | * | Tracked |
| windows_server_2008 | * | Tracked |
| windows_server_2012 | * | Tracked |
| windows_server_2016 | * | Tracked |
| windows_server_2019 | * | Tracked |
| windows_server_2022 | * | Tracked |
| Windows | Microsoft | Tracked |
| Windows | Microsoft | Tracked |
| Windows | Microsoft | Tracked |
| Windows | Microsoft | Tracked |
| Windows | Microsoft | Tracked |