{"id":15770,"date":"2013-12-02T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15770"},"modified":"2013-12-02T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T13:11:00","slug":"kb2893986-vulnerability-in-ws2012-windows-8-hyper-v-could-allow-elevation-of-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15770","title":{"rendered":"KB2893986 &#8211; Vulnerability in WS2012 &#038; Windows 8 Hyper-V Could Allow Elevation of Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/security\/bulletin\/MS13-092\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> the MS13-092 (aka CVE-2013-3898) security fix for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Windows 8 Client Hyper-V.&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code as System in another virtual machine (VM) on the shared Hyper-V host. An attacker would not be able to execute code on the Hyper-V host, only on guest VMs on the same host. The vulnerability could also allow denial of service in Hyper-V on the same platforms, allowing an attacker to cause the Hyper-V host to stop responding or restart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019ve only had a handful of security fixes for Hyper-V since it was released on Windows Server 2008.&#160; This looks like the most important one of the lot.<\/p>\n<p>Please test\/deploy as quickly as you can.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ebf3e8b8-ab29-4b69-a44d-d42899757d7c\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November, Microsoft released the MS13-092 (aka CVE-2013-3898) security fix for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Windows 8 Client Hyper-V.&#160; An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code as System in another virtual machine (VM) on the shared Hyper-V host. An attacker would not be able to execute code on the Hyper-V &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KB2893986 &#8211; Vulnerability in WS2012 &#038; Windows 8 Hyper-V Could Allow Elevation of Privilege&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,190,195,109,118],"class_list":["post-15770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-security","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}