Microsoft Windows SSDP Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A race condition vulnerability has been identified in the Windows Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) Service. This vulnerability allows an authorized attacker to locally elevate privileges. The issue arises from concurrent execution using shared resources without proper synchronization.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges.

Remediation

Users can download the security update for this vulnerability through the Microsoft Update Catalog. Specific update details can be found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles KB5066791, KB5066835, KB5066780, KB5066836, KB5066586, and KB5066873.