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Rewterz Threat Advisory – Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

CVE-2021-1732

Microsoft Windows could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the Win32k component. By executing a specially-crafted program, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with higher privileges.

Impact

Gain Privileges

Affected Vendors

Microsoft

Remediation

Refer to vendor advisory for the complete list of affected products and their respective patches.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-1732

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