MSRC-CVE-2023-29343 — SysInternals Sysmon for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less 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
14.16 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2023-29343 Public exploit

SysInternals Sysmon for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

SysInternals Sysmon for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Sysmon Windows

May 9, 2023

Revision history

2023-10-12 #2
Updated FAQ information. This is an informational change only.
2023-05-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-29343 SysInternals Sysmon for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29343
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