{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 6 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2014-1812 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021, including in ransomware campaigns.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2014-1812 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.","what":"CVE-2014-1812 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 7, published on 14 May 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2014-1812 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2014-1812 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 7, published on 14 May 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2014-1812 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021, including in ransomware campaigns.\n\nAffected product: Microsoft Windows 7. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-1812/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-1812/index.md)","id":"CVE-2014-1812","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-1812/index.md","name":"CVE-2014-1812","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Windows Group Policy","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers can read Group Policy passwords from SYSVOL to gain elevated privileges on Windows systems.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"microsoft","cpe":[{"product":"windows_7","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"windows_8","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"windows_8.1","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"windows_server_2008","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"windows_server_2012","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"windows_vista","vendor":"microsoft"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-255","name":null},{"id":"CWE-522","name":"Insufficiently Protected Credentials"}],"description":"The Group Policy implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 does not properly handle distribution of passwords, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive credential information and consequently gain privileges by leveraging access to the SYSVOL share, as exploited in the wild in May 2014, aka \"Group Policy Preferences Password Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.\"","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2023-05-22","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":0,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2023-05-22T21:22:38Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/mauricelambert/gpp-encrypt","stars":0,"title":"This little script encrypts password to gpp cpassword. It useful to create vulnerable lab AD (CVE-2014-1812)."},{"date":null,"kind":"metasploit","ref":"auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_enum_gpp","stars":null,"title":"SMB Group Policy Preference Saved Passwords Enumeration"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Microsoft Windows Group Policy Preferences Password Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2014-1812","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2021-11-03","dueDate":"2022-05-03","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Known","product":"Windows","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions.","vendorProject":"Microsoft","vulnerabilityName":"Microsoft Windows Group Policy Preferences Password Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"microsoft:windows_7","products":["microsoft:windows_7","microsoft:windows_8","microsoft:windows_8.1","microsoft:windows_server_2008","microsoft:windows_server_2012","microsoft:windows_vista"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2014"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-1813"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-1811"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2014-05-14","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Microsoft HTTP.sys Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2015-1635","kev_date_added":"2022-02-10","published":"2015-04-14"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2015-2360","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2015-06-10"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2014-6324","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2014-11-18"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Windows Object Linking \u0026 Embedding (OLE) Automation Array Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2014-6332","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2014-11-11"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2014-4148","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2014-10-15"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Windows Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2013-3918","kev_date_added":"2025-10-06","published":"2013-11-12"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-22","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers can read Group Policy passwords from SYSVOL to gain elevated privileges on Windows systems.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-1812/"}