Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially read small portions of heap memory.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Any authenticated attacker could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain application level execution rights to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability to disclose information (AV:L).
Alternatively, an attacker could gain access by convincing a local user to open a malicious file. The attacker would have to convince the user to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open a specially crafted file.
Security updates
10.0.17763.4737 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029247
10.0.22000.2295 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029253
10.0.19044.3324 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029244
10.0.22621.2134 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029263
10.0.10240.20107 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029259
10.0.14393.6167 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029242
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Windows Wireless Wide Area Network Service (WwanSvc) Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Windows Wireless Wide Area Network Service (WwanSvc) Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Added an FAQ. This is an information change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-36905 Windows Wireless Wide Area Network Service (WwanSvc) Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36905
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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