CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-0043 — Microsoft Windows 10 security vulnerability
Medium
CVSS 5.3
Active Directory Federation Services in Microsoft Windows 10 1607, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows Server 2016 allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka "Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.3 (3.0)
- Published
- 2017-03-17
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- windows/system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Affected products
- microsoft / windows_10 / 1607
- microsoft / windows_server_2008
- microsoft / windows_server_2008 / r2
- microsoft / windows_server_2012
- microsoft / windows_server_2012 / r2
- microsoft / windows_server_2016
Matched remediation archetype
Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure
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Check exposure
- Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
- Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
- Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.
Remediate safely
- Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
- Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
- Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.
Authoritative sources
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