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WinVerifyTrust Signature Validation Vulnerability

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE ListKnown exploited1 source record

Why is Microsoft republishing a CVE from 2013? We are republishing CVE-2013-3900 in the Security Update Guide to update the Security Updates table and to inform customers that the EnableCertPaddingCheck is available in all currently supported versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. While the format is different from the original CVE published in 2013, except for clarifications about how to configure the EnableCertPaddingCheck registry value, the information herein remains unchanged from the original text published on December 10, 2013, Microsoft does not plan to enforce the stricter verification behavior as a default functionality on supported releases of Microsoft Windows. This behavior remains available as an opt-in feature via reg key setting, and is available on supported editions of Windows released since December 10, 2013. This includes all currently supported versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. The supporting code for this reg key was incorporated at the time of release for Windows 10 and Windows 11, so no security update is required; however, the reg key must be set. See the Security Updates table for the list of affected software. Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the WinVerifyTrust function handles Windows Authenticode signature verification for portable executable (PE) files. An anonymous attacker could exploit the vulnerability by modifying an existing signed executable file to leverage unverified portions of

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CVE-2013-3900

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Windows 10 Version 1809

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Windows 10 Version 1809

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Windows Server 2019

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Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)

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Windows Server 2022

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Windows 11 version 21H2

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Windows 10 Version 21H2

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Windows 11 version 22H2

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Windows 10 Version 22H2

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Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)

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Windows 11 version 22H3

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Windows 11 Version 23H2

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Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)

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Windows 11 Version 24H2

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Windows Server 2025

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Windows 10 Version 1507

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Windows 10 Version 1607

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Windows Server 2016

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Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)

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Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

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Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)

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Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)

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Windows Server 2012

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Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)

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Windows Server 2012 R2

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Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)

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Structured affected-version data

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Related CVEs
CVE-2013-3900

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medium

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CVE-2013-3900 · Unrated

WinVerifyTrust function · Known exploited (CISA KEV)

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  1. CVE-2013-3900 · Revision 1Source updated