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**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 this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

**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.

This vulnerability is only exploitable on Windows Servers that have installed and configured the Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) role which is not installed and configured by default. Please see Routing and Remote Access Server (RRAS) | Microsoft Learn for more information. You might also benefit by reading more about Roles here: Roles, Role Services, and Features included in Windows Server - Server Core | Microsoft Learn

This vulnerability is only exploitable on Windows Servers that have installed and configured the Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) role which is not installed and configured by default. Please see Routing and Remote Access Server (RRAS) | Microsoft Learn for more information. You might also benefit by reading more about Roles here: Roles, Role Services, and Features included in Windows Server - Server Core | Microsoft Learn

**How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?** In an email or instant message attack scenario, the attacker could send the targeted user a specially crafted file that is designed to exploit the remote code execution vulnerability. In any case an attacker would have no way to force a user to view attacker-controlled content. Instead, an attacker would have to convince a user to take action. For example, an attacker could entice a user to either click a link that directs the user to the attacker's site or send a malicious attachment.

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

This vulnerability is only exploitable on Windows Servers that have installed and configured the Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) role which is not installed and configured by default. Please see Routing and Remote Access Server (RRAS) | Microsoft Learn for more information. You might also benefit by reading more about Roles here: Roles, Role Services, and Features included in Windows Server - Server Core | Microsoft Learn

**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?** The vulnerability is in the web server, but the malicious scripts execute in the victim’s browser on their machine.