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.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
This vulnerability would require an unauthenticated attacker on a guest VM to send specially crafted file operation requests to the VM's hardware resources which could result in remote code execution on the host server.
Security updates
10.0.17763.5122 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032196
10.0.20348.2113 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032198
10.0.20348.2091 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032304
10.0.22000.2600 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032192
10.0.19043.3693 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032189
10.0.22621.2715 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032190
10.0.25398.531 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032202
10.0.14393.6452 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032197
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-36408 Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36408
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss