CVE-2021-40456 (GCVE-0-2021-40456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-13 00:26 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:44
VLAI
Title
Windows AD FS Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Summary
Windows AD FS Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-18 20:28 UTC
CWE
  • Security Feature Bypass
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Affected: 10.0.0 , < 10.0.17763.2237 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:10.0.17763.2237:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Affected: 10.0.0 , < 10.0.17763.2237 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:10.0.17763.2237:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Affected: 10.0.0 , < 10.0.20348.288 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022:10.0.20348.288:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Microsoft Windows Server version 2004 Affected: 10.0.0 , < 10.0.19041.1288 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2004:10.0.19041.1288:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Microsoft Windows Server version 20H2 Affected: 10.0.0 , < 10.0.19042.1288 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_20H2:10.0.19042.1288:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2021-10-12 07:00
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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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