MSRC-CVE-2023-41772 — Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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.

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

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2023-41772 Public exploit EPSS 13%

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows 10 Version 1809 Windows

Oct 10, 2023

Revision history

2023-10-10 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-41772 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-41772
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss