vulnerability

Microsoft Windows: CVE-2016-3223: Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 16, 2016
Added
Jun 10, 2024
Modified
Oct 14, 2025

Description

Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 mishandle LDAP authentication, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to gain privileges by modifying group-policy update data within a domain-controller data stream, aka "Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_10-1507-kb3163017microsoft-windows-windows_10-1511-kb3163018
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