Microsoft Windows SMBv3 Compression Remote Code Execution

Strike ID:
E20-0z181
CVSS:
10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
False Positive:
f
Variants:
1
Year:
2020

Description

This strike exploits a vulnerability in the SMBv3 parsing component of Microsoft Windows SMB server. The vulnerability is caused by improper handling of compressed SMBv3 packets. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially-crafted SMBv3 messages. Successful exploitation could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the target system.

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