MSRC-CVE-2023-24914 — Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

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

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

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
10.0.22621.1555 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5025239

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.0

CVE-2023-24914

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows 11 version 22H2 Windows

Apr 11, 2023

Revision history

2023-04-11 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-24914 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-24914
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