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  "title": "Windows Certificate Dialog — Privilege Escalation",
  "summary": "The Windows Certificate Dialog does not properly enforce user privileges, so a local attacker can run processes in an elevated context. Ransomware campaigns are known to use this flaw.",
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  "severity": "high",
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  "published_at": "2019-11-12T19:15:12.583Z",
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