KLA11218 ACE vulnerability in Microsoft System Center products

A memory corruption vulnerability was found in Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and Microsoft Security Essentials. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially crafted file.

Original advisories

CVE-2018-0986

CVE-2018-0986

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

Microsoft-Forefront-Protection

CVE list

CVE-2018-0986 critical

KB list

Solution

Install necessary updates from the KB section, that are listed in your Windows Update (Windows Update usually can be accessed from the Control Panel)

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

Affected Products

• Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010Microsoft Security Essentials