WPAD Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when the <a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/dn848375.aspx#WPAD">Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD) protocol</a> falls back to a vulnerable proxy discovery process. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass security and gain elevated privileges on a targeted system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could respond to NetBIOS name requests for WPAD.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles proxy discovery.</p>

Where it's fixed