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High MSRC-CVE-2023-36776 1 CVE

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Oct 10, 2023 · Updated Oct 10, 2023

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 the vulnerability?
A local, authenticated attacker could gain elevated local system or administrator privileges through a vulnerability in the Win32k.sys driver.

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.

Security updates
10.0.17763.4974 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031361
10.0.20348.2031 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031364
10.0.22000.2538 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031358
10.0.19041.3570 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031356
10.0.22621.2428 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031354
10.0.10240.20232 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031377
10.0.14393.6351 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031362
6.0.6003.22317 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031416
6.0.6003.22317 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031411
6.1.7601.26769 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031408
6.1.7601.26769 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031441
6.2.9200.24523 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031442
6.2.9200.24523 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031427
6.3.9600.21620 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031419
6.3.9600.21620 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031407

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