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WINDOWS 10, WINDOWS 11 AT RISK DUE TO NEW ZERO-DAY VULNERABILITY: ALL YOU NEED
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HERE'S EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW SECURITY EXPLOIT THAT PUTS
WINDOWS 10 AND WINDOWS 11 USERS AT RISK.

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By: Tech Desk | Mumbai |
November 24, 2021 11:21:02 am


The new vulnerability allows attackers with limited access to gain more
privileges and spread across the system. (Representational)

A new Windows zero-day vulnerability has been discovered that allows attackers
to exploit the Microsoft operating system and gain administrator privileges on a
device almost instantly. The vulnerability affects Windows 10, Windows 11, and
Windows Server.

The flaw allows attackers with limited access to gain more privileges and spread
across the system to further allow any kind of potential damage. A test by
BleepingComputer reveals that the exploit is capable of acquiring SYSTEM
privileges from an account that only had standard privileges.

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The new vulnerability, discovered by Twitter user Abdelhamid Naceri, was seen in
bypass to a patch that Microsoft earlier rolled out as a response to
CVE-2021-41379. After the patch was released, Naceri showed how the
vulnerability can be exploited via ‘InstallerFileTakeOver’, a proof-of-concept
tool on GitHub.


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While tested on Windows 10 21H1 build 19043.1348, the file reportedly took just
a few seconds to gain SYSTEM privileges. Microsoft is expected to soon release a
security patch to fix the vulnerability for the affected versions of Windows.


WHY THE VULNERABILITY WAS DISCLOSED PUBLICLY

Naceri reportedly disclosed the zero-day vulnerability publicly “out of
frustration over Microsoft’s reducing payouts in its bug bounty program” adding
that “Microsoft bounties has been trashed since April 2020, I really wouldn’t do
that if MSFT didn’t take the decision to downgrade those bounties.”

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“This variant was discovered during the analysis of CVE-2021-41379 patch. the
bug was not fixed correctly, however, instead of dropping the bypass,” he
explained on GitHub.

This is not the first case developers and security researchers have complained
of reducing payouts on bug-bounty programs.

> Under Microsoft’s new bug bounty program one of my zerodays has gone from
> being worth $10,000 to $1,000 💀
> 
> — MalwareTech (@MalwareTechBlog) July 27, 2020

With decreasing monetary incentives, users who encounter or discover
vulnerabilities are less motivated to alert companies like Microsoft, instead
choosing to keep vulnerabilities to themselves or worse, selling them to
malicious attackers.



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