Coverage › CVE-2014-1812
CVE-2014-1812 Unmapped
Microsoft Windows Group Policy Preferences Password Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Windows
- Description (CISA)
- Microsoft Windows Active Directory contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it distributes passwords that are configured using Group Policy preferences. An authenticated attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability could decrypt the passwords and use them to elevate privileges on the domain.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-255
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1812
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2014-1812. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-255) — here is why — and does not guess.
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