CVE-2021-36942 — Microsoft Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) Spoofing Vulnerability
CVE-2021-36942: Microsoft Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) Spoofing Vulnerability
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)
| Vendor / project | Microsoft |
| Product | Windows |
| Date added | 2021-11-03 |
| Due date | 2021-11-17 |
| Ransomware campaign use | Known |
Description
Microsoft Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) contains a spoofing vulnerability allowing an unauthenticated attacker to call a method on the LSARPC interface and coerce the domain controller to authenticate against another server using NTLM.
Required action (CISA)
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36942
Weakness behind it
CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-749. 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-2021-36942
- KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
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