#windows

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into sending a request to a malicious server. This could result in the server returning malicious data that might cause arbitrary code execution on the user's system.

**According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Any authenticated attacker could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.

**What kind of security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass the SmartScreen user experience.

**Why is this Red Hat, Inc. CVE included in the Security Update Guide?** The vulnerability assigned to this CVE is in Linux Shim boot. It is being documented in the Security Update Guide to announce that the latest builds of Microsoft Windows address this vulnerability by blocking old, unpatched, Linux boot loaders by applying SBAT (Secure Boot Advanced Targeting) EFI variables in the UEFI library. Please see Security Update Guide Supports CVEs Assigned by Industry Partners for more information. For more information see: CVE-2023-40547.

**The following mitigating factors might be helpful in your situation:** * Users are advised against installing or enabling the Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service. * The LPD is not installed or enabled on the systems by default. * The LPD has been announced as deprecated since Windows Server 2012. Please refer to: Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012.

**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.

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

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?** An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges from a Low Integrity Level in a contained ("sandboxed") execution environment to a Medium Integrity Level or a High Integrity Level. Please refer to AppContainer isolation and Mandatory Integrity Control for more information.

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

### 1. Impacted Products Streamilt Open Source versions before 1.37.0. ### 2. Introduction Snowflake Streamlit open source addressed a security vulnerability via the [static file sharing feature](https://docs.streamlit.io/develop/concepts/configuration/serving-static-files). The vulnerability was patched on Jul 25, 2024, as part of Streamlit open source version 1.37.0. The vulnerability only affects Windows. ### 3. Path Traversal Vulnerability #### 3.1 Description On May 12, 2024, Streamlit was informed via our bug bounty program about a path traversal vulnerability in the open source library. We fixed and merged a patch remediating the vulnerability on Jul 25, 2024. The issue was determined to be in the moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of [5.9](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N) #### 3.2 Scenarios and attack vector(s) Users of hosted Streamlit app(s) on Windows were vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerabi...