CVE-2016-0099
Essential information
- Published
- 09/03/2016 12:59
- Modified
- 22/04/2026 23:57
- Author
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- Creator
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- CVSS
- 7.2 (v2) 7.8 HIGH (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- CWE
- CWE-120
- CVSS vector
-
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H—
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
- LOCAL
- Access complexity
- LOW
- Authentication
- NONE
- Confidentiality impact
- COMPLETE
- Integrity impact
- COMPLETE
- Availability impact
- COMPLETE
- Exploitability
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
- LOCAL
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- LOW
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- HIGH
- Integrity impact
- HIGH
- Availability impact
- HIGH
- Exploit code maturity
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
- —
- Attack complexity
- —
- Attack requirements
- —
- Privileges required
- —
- User interaction
- —
- Confidentiality (V)
- —
- Confidentiality (S)
- —
- Integrity (V)
- —
- Integrity (S)
- —
- Availability (V)
- —
- Availability (S)
- —
- Exploit maturity
- —
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows if the Windows Secondary Logon Service fails to properly manage request handles in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code as an administrator.
NVD status
- NVD
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