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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
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
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-38159 Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-38159
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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