CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-21771

Sensitive Data Storage in Improperly Locked Memory

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

Windows Local Session Manager (LSM) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Weakness

The product stores sensitive data in memory that is not locked, or that has been incorrectly locked, which might cause the memory to be written to swap files on disk by the virtual memory manager. This can make the data more accessible to external actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10 Microsoft 20h2 (including) 20h2 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 21h2 (including) 21h2 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 22h2 (including) 22h2 (including)
Windows_11 Microsoft 21h2 (including) 21h2 (including)
Windows_11 Microsoft 22h2 (including) 22h2 (including)
Windows_server_2022 Microsoft - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References