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

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

**Are there any more actions I need to take to be protected from this vulnerability?** Yes. Customers vulnerable to this issue would need to enable Extended Protection in order to prevent this attack. For more information, see Exchange Server Support for Windows Extended Protection **Is there more information available about this release of Exchange Server?** For more information on this issue, please see The Exchange Blog.

**Are there any more actions I need to take to be protected from this vulnerability?** Yes. Customers vulnerable to this issue would need to enable Extended Protection in order to prevent this attack. For more information, see Exchange Server Support for Windows Extended Protection **Is there more information available about this release of Exchange Server?** For more information on this issue, please see The Exchange Blog.

**Are there any more actions I need to take to be protected from this vulnerability?** Yes. Customers vulnerable to this issue would need to enable Extended Protection in order to prevent this attack. For more information, see Exchange Server Support for Windows Extended Protection **Is there more information available about this release of Exchange Server?** For more information on this issue, please see The Exchange Blog.

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted connection request to a RAS server, which could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on the RAS server machine.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?** The word **Remote** in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. For example, when the score indicates that the **Attack Vector** is **Local** and **User Interaction** is **Required**, this could describe an exploit in which an attacker, through social engineering, convinces a victim to download and open a specially crafted file from a website which leads to a local attack on their computer.

**According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?** Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file. * In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. * In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access Kerberos protected data.

**I am running a supported version of Windows Server. Is my system vulnerable to this issue?** This vulnerability is only exploitable for systems that have the NFS role enabled. See NFS Overview for more information on this feature. More information on installing or uninstalling Roles or Role Services is available here.