CVE-2021-42282
Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Elevation of Privilege
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
Affected products
Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
- affected 6.1.7601.0 – < 6.1.7601.25769
Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
- affected 6.1.7601.0 – < 6.1.7601.25769
Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
- affected 6.0.6003.0 – < 6.0.6003.21282
Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
- affected 6.0.6003.0 – < 6.0.6003.21282
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012
- affected 6.2.9200.0 – < 6.2.9200.23517
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
- affected 6.2.9200.0 – < 6.2.9200.23517
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2
- affected 6.3.9600.0 – < 6.3.9600.20174
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
- affected 6.3.9600.0 – < 6.3.9600.20174
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016
- affected 10.0.14393.0 – < 10.0.14393.4770
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
- affected 10.0.14393.0 – < 10.0.14393.4770
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019
- affected 10.0.17763.0 – < 10.0.17763.2300
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
- affected 10.0.17763.0 – < 10.0.17763.2300
Microsoft · Windows Server 2022
- affected 10.0.20348.0 – < 10.0.20348.350
Microsoft · Windows Server version 2004
- affected 10.0.0 – < 10.0.19041.1348
Microsoft · Windows Server version 20H2
- affected 10.0.0 – < 10.0.19041.1348
References (2)
- Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-42282 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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