What is CVE-2016-0190?

CVE-2016-0190 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 8.1, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-05-11.

How severe is CVE-2016-0190?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Microsoft Windows 8.1

CVE-2016-0190

Volume Manager Driver in Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT 8.1 does not properly check whether RemoteFX RDP USB disk accesses originate from the user who mounted a disk, which allows local users to read arbitrary files on these disks via RemoteFX requests, aka "Remote Desktop Protocol Drive Redirection Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.023 (81.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows_8.1
Microsoft Windows_rt_8.1
Microsoft Windows_server_2012 — versions r2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-0190?: CVE-2016-0190 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 8.1, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2016-0190?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.