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 lead to unauthorized administrative privileges.

Remediation

Users can apply the security update for this vulnerability, which is available through the Microsoft Update Catalog. Specific update details can be found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles KB5083769 for Windows 10 and 11, KB5082142 for Windows Server 2022, and KB5082123 for Windows Server 2019.