CVE-2014-1812 Information

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.\

Reference

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/05/13/ms14-025-an-update-for-group-policy-preferences.aspx https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-025