CVE-2026-33829

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?

An attacker must induce the user into launching a crafted malicious link and confirming the launch of the Snipping Tool program.

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L),but lead to no loss of availability (A:N) and integrity (I:N)? What does that mean for this vulnerability?

An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view some sensitive information (Confidentiality) but not all resources within the impacted component may be divulged to the attacker. The attacker cannot make changes to disclosed information (Integrity) or limit access to the resource (Availability).

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?

An attacker could induce the user into clicking a specially crafted link in a Web browser or other URL source, by embedding it in a Web page or email message. If the user approves the launching of the link, the crafted URL can induce the computer to connect to an SMB server of the attacker’s choosing, which would disclose the user’s NTLMv2 hash to the attacker, who could use this to authenticate as the user.