CVE-2023-21800

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Feb 14, 2023
Updated: Aug 19, 2026
Reserved: Dec 16, 2022

Description

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2Microsoft	6.0.6003.0 to before 6.0.6003.21915Affected
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1Microsoft	6.1.7601.0 to before 6.1.7601.26366Affected
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	6.1.7601.0 to before 6.1.7601.26366Affected
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2Microsoft	6.0.6003.0 to before 6.0.6003.21915Affected
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	6.0.6003.0 to before 6.0.6003.21915Affected

References

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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