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WMI Vulnerabilities and Possible Security Risks when Enabling WMI

Answered WMI Vulnerabilities and Possible Security Risks when Enabling WMI

  • Tuesday, February 21, 2012 1:33 PM
     
     
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    Hi all

    We currently have WMI disabled on all our Windows Servers (2003 & 2008) and Desktops (XP) and we are now looking at enabling it.

    Being new to using WMI, does anyone know of any existing vulnerabilities with enabling the WMI service for Servers and desktops, and does it introduce any new security issues/concerns we should be aware of.

    Thanks in advance for any replies.

    ..Shane

    • Moved by Doug NealMicrosoft Employee Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:08 AM Not Related To MBSA (From:MBSA - Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer)
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  • Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:13 AM
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    Hi，

    For Security of WMI, you may refer to the article below.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa392291(v=vs.85).aspx 

    Juke Chou

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  • Monday, February 27, 2012 8:55 AM
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    Hi,

    Does this article help? Do you have any other question on this? Please feel free to give us any update.

    Juke Chou

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  • Thursday, March 01, 2012 8:55 AM
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    Hi,

    As this thread has been quiet for a while, we assume that the issue has been resolved. At this time, we will mark it as ‘Answered’ as the previous steps should be helpful for many similar scenarios. If the issue still persists, please feel free to reply this post directly so we will be notified to follow it up. You can also choose to unmark the answer as you wish.

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