The Group Policy implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 does not properly handle distribution of passwords, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive credential information and consequently gain privileges by leveraging access to the SYSVOL share, as exploited in the wild in May 2014, aka "Group Policy Preferences Password Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
CVE-2014-1812
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2014-1886 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at every mission impact level
A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 80EG Risk 80/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity88% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 65%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH.
- EG Severity
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 65% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1812
Published
May 14, 2014
Last Modified
April 22, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-1812Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-025 - Important | Microsoft Learn
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-025Archived MSDN and TechNet Blogs | Microsoft Learn
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/05/13/ms14-025-an-update-for-group-policy-preferences.aspxWeakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 121× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 1,063 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 963 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 07:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-11-01 06:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 06:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-31 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-31 05:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 05:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-30 04:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 04:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-29 03:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 03:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-28 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-28 02:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 02:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-27 00:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 00:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-26 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-25 23:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-25 20:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-24 22:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 22:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-23 21:33 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-23 21:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-23 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-22 20:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 20:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-21 19:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 19:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-20 18:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 18:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-20 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-19 17:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 17:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-18 15:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-18 11:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-17 14:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 14:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-16 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-16 13:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 13:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-15 12:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 12:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-14 11:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 11:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-13 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 10:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-12 21:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 09:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-12 05:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-12 00:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-11 20:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 20:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-11 16:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-11 13:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-11 12:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-11 08:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-11 04:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-11 00:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 00:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-10 19:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-10 19:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-10 15:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-10 11:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-10 07:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-10 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-09 23:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-09 19:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-09 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-09 10:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-09 06:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-09 02:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-08 22:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-08 18:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 18:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-08 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-08 14:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-08 09:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-08 05:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-08 01:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 01:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-07 23:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-07 21:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-07 17:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-07 13:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-07 09:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-07 04:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-07 00:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-06 20:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-06 16:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cm2m-vv5g-hpc2 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
- 2026-10-06 15:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 65% · 99th percentile
Publicly available exploits
(1 reference)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module). No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.
- Metasploitauxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_enum_gpp✓ verifiedPublished Sep 17, 2015
SMB Group Policy Preference Saved Passwords Enumeration
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