MSRC-CVE-2023-24902 — Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

Security updates
10.0.22000.1936 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026368
10.0.22621.1702 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026372

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2023-24902

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows 11 version 22H2 Windows 11 version 21H2 Windows

May 9, 2023

Revision history

2023-05-18 #2
Added acknowledgements. This is an informational change only.
2023-05-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-24902 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-24902
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss