#Windows COM

**According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?** In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

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

**According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?** In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could get unauthorized access to sensitive user data outside of the AppContainer execution environment.

*How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?* An authorized attacker could exploit this Windows COM vulnerability by sending from a user mode application specially crafted malicious COM traffic directed at the COM Server, which might lead to remote code execution.