Microsoft has released a patch addressing Remote Code Execution critical vulnerability in its Remote Desktop Services across all the versions of Operating system. The severity of this vulnerability is so critical and exploitable that Microsoft has released patched for Windows XP and Windows 2003 Servers too.
According to Microsoft, this vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the target system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted request to the target systems Remote Desktop Service via RDP.
CVSS Score : Base 9.8 , Temporal 8.8
Patches for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Servers can be download from here and for Windows XP / Windows 2003 Servers can be downloaded from here.
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