National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3338

Overview

The Windows Task Scheduler in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 does not properly determine the security context of scheduled tasks, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Task Scheduler Vulnerability." NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2010-3888.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-348A

Name: TA10-348A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-348A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS10-092

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-092.mspx

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1024874

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024874

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12304

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12304

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12304

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12304