CVE-2016-0190: Microsoft Windows 8.1

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Volume Manager Driver in Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT 8.1 does not properly check whether RemoteFX RDP USB disk accesses originate from the user who mounted a disk, which allows local users to read arbitrary files on these disks via RemoteFX requests, aka "Remote Desktop Protocol Drive Redirection Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Affected products

  • Microsoft Windows 8.1: any version
  • Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1: any version
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012: affected versions not specified; version r2 only

Published 2016-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.