Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Task Scheduler when a user creates a task that uses UNC paths. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could use Windows Task Scheduler to schedule a new task with a specially crafted UNC path.</p> <p>This security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Task Scheduler handles specially crafted UNC paths.</p>

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