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CVE-2023-21552: Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

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CVE-2023-21551: Microsoft Cryptographic Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

CVE-2023-21550: Windows Cryptographic Information Disclosure Vulnerability

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is Windows cryptographic secrets.

CVE-2023-21676: Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** This vulnerability could be exploited over the network by an authenticated attacker through a low complexity attack on a server configured as the domain controller.

CVE-2023-21556: Windows Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

CVE-2023-21674: Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?** This vulnerability could lead to a browser sandbox escape.

CVE-2023-21549: Windows SMB Witness Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?** To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could execute a specially crafted malicious script which executes an RPC call to an RPC host. This could result in elevation of privilege on the server.

CVE-2023-21548: Windows Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

CVE-2023-21532: Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

CVE-2023-21524: Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could impersonate the group Managed Service Account (gMSA) to perform actions or access resources over the network.