CVE-2021-36934

Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jul 22, 2021
Updated
Aug 10, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2021

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Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists because of overly permissive Access Control Lists (ACLs) on multiple system files, including the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. An attacker must have the ability to execute code on a victim system to exploit this vulnerability. After installing this security update, you must manually delete all shadow copies of system files, including the SAM database, to fully mitigate this vulnerabilty. Simply installing this security update will not fully mitigate this vulnerability. See KB5005357- Delete Volume Shadow Copies.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:T/RC:Cmicrosoft

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Windows 10 Version 1809Microsoft
  • 10.0.17763.0 to before 10.0.17763.2114Affected
Windows 10 Version 1809Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before 10.0.17763.2114Affected
Windows 10 Version 1909Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before 10.0.18363.1734Affected
Windows 10 Version 2004Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before 10.0.19041.1165Affected
Windows 10 Version 20H2Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before 10.0.19042.1165Affected
Windows 10 Version 21H1Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before 10.0.19043.1165Affected

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