CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-21726

Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format

Published: Jan 10, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Windows Credential Manager User Interface Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Weakness

The storage of passwords in a recoverable format makes them subject to password reuse attacks by malicious users. In fact, it should be noted that recoverable encrypted passwords provide no significant benefit over plaintext passwords since they are subject not only to reuse by malicious attackers but also by malicious insiders. If a system administrator can recover a password directly, or use a brute force search on the available information, the administrator can use the password on other accounts.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10_1607 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_1809 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_20h2 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_21h2 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_22h2 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_11_21h2 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_11_22h2 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_7 Microsoft –sp1 (including) –sp1 (including)
Windows_8.1 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_rt_8.1 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft –sp2 (including) –sp2 (including)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2-sp1 (including) r2-sp1 (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 (including) r2 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2022 Microsoft - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References