CVE-2014-1812: Microsoft Windows Group Policy Preferences Password Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

First published: Wed May 14 2014(Updated: )

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."

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Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
Microsoft Windows 7	=sp1
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft Windows Server 2008	=sp2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008	=r2-sp1
Microsoft Windows Server 2008	=r2-sp1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012	=r2
Microsoft Windows Vista	=sp2
Microsoft Windows
	=sp1


	=sp2
	=r2-sp1
	=r2-sp1

	=r2
	=sp2

Remedy

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-025

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