Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2021-36942

TLP:CLEAR

Microsoft Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) Spoofing Vulnerability

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.

Facts

  • Vendor: Microsoft
  • Product: Windows
  • CVSS: 7.5
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 66 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 3 November 2021
  • First known exploitation: 3 November 2021
  • Used in ransomware campaigns (per CISA): Yes
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 17 November 2021
  • Weakness: CWE-749
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 3 November 2021

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD