KLA12197 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft System Center

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft System Center. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, execute arbitrary code.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Defender can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service.
2. A remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Defender can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.

Original advisories

CVE-2021-31978

CVE-2021-31985

Related products

Microsoft-System-Center-Operations-Manager

CVE list

CVE-2021-31978 high

CVE-2021-31985 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.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• Microsoft Malware Protection Engine