Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – when an authenticated attacker abuses clipboard redirection. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the victim 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 must already have compromised a system running Remote Desktop Services, and then wait for a victim system to connect to Remote Desktop Services.

Impact

Privilege escalation

Affected Vendors

Microsoft

Remediation

Please see vendor’s advisory for more details of updates/patches.

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0887