CVE-2016-0099: Microsoft Windows Secondary Logon Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows if the Windows Secondary Logon Service fails to properly manage request handles in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code as an administrator.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0099

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-264. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0099
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog