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?
The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is uninitialized 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.
Security updates
10.0.17763.4851 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5030214
10.0.20348.1970 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5030216
10.0.20348.1964 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5030325
10.0.22000.2416 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5030217
10.0.19044.3448 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5030211
10.0.14393.6252 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5030213
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-38140 Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-38140
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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