Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Vista
CVE-2007-1209
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) in Microsoft Windows Vista does not properly handle connection resources when starting and stopping processes, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening and closing multiple ApiPort connections, which leaves a "dangling pointer" to a process data structure.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466331/100/200/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/23338 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1524 (signature, vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-021 (vendor-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/219848 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1325 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/34008 (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2531 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24823 (third-party-advisory)