#windows

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** For successful exploitation, a malicious certificate needs to be imported on an affected system. An authenticated attacker could remotely upload a certificate to the Server service.

**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 security feature could be bypassed by this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass Secure Boot.

**Determine if the Print Spooler service is running** Run the following in Windows PowerShell: Get-Service -Name Spooler If the Print Spooler is running or if the service is not disabled, follow these steps: **Stop and disable the Print Spooler service** If stopping and disabling the Print Spooler service is appropriate for your environment, run the following in Windows PowerShell: Stop-Service -Name Spooler -Force Set-Service -Name Spooler -StartupType Disabled **Impact of workaround** Stopping and disabling the Print Spooler service disables the ability to print both locally and remotely.

**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.

**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 invest time in repeated exploitation attempts through sending constant or intermittent data.

**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 take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

**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 raw unencrypted disk sector data.

**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 the contents of Kernel memory. An attacker could read the contents of Kernel memory from a user mode process.

**Why is this AMD CVE included in the Security Update Guide?** The vulnerability assigned to this CVE is in certain processor models offered by AMD. The mitigation for this vulnerability requires a Windows update. This CVE is being documented in the Security Update Guide to announce that the latest builds of Windows enable the mitigation and provide protection against the vulnerability. Please see the following for more information: * AMD-SB-1037