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Microsoft Silverlight Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 13 May 2015 14:41 Release Date: 13 May 2015 3761 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Operating Systems - Windows OS

TYPE: Windows OS

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Silverlight that is caused when Silverlight improperly allows applications that are intended to run at a low integrity level (very limited permissions) to be executed at a medium integrity level (permissions of the current user) or higher. To exploit this vulnerability an attacker would first have to log on to the system or convince a logged on user to execute a specially crafted Silverlight application.


Impact

  • Elevation of Privilege

System / Technologies affected

  • Microsoft Silverlight 5
  • Microsoft Silverlight 5 Developer Runtime

 


Solutions

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