CVE-2014-1812

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: May 14, 2014
Updated: Oct 22, 2025
Reserved: Jan 29, 2014

Description

The Group Policy implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 does not properly handle distribution of passwords, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive credential information and consequently gain privileges by leveraging access to the SYSVOL share, as exploited in the wild in May 2014, aka "Group Policy Preferences Password Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

MS14-025vendor-advisory
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/05/13/ms14-025-an-update-for-group-policy-preferences.aspx
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-1812government-resource

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