CVE-2018-8120High· 7.0▾ Abyssal⚠ Exploited in the wild0dayPoC availableAn elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Serve…
▾ Abyssal zone — Critical with a public exploit or in-the-wild use
impact 38.5 · likelihood 14.7 · exploitation 25 · ransomware 5
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 3 sources. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Aug 13.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Federal remediation due Apr 5, 2022
Last analysed / modified upstream
74%
Exploit-DB · 10 GitHub repos · Metasploit ×1 (last check)
Added to the CISA catalog on Mar 15, 2022. Federal remediation due Apr 5, 2022. View catalog ↗
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8124, CVE-2018-8164, CVE-2018-8166.
windows_7windows_server_2008windows_server_2008 = r2Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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