CVE-2018-8453High· 7.8▾ 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 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT…
▾ Abyssal zone — Critical with a public exploit or in-the-wild use
impact 42.9 · likelihood 14 · 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 Jul 21, 2022
Last analysed / modified upstream
70%
Exploit-DB · 3 GitHub repos · Metasploit ×1 (last check)
Added to the CISA catalog on Jan 21, 2022. Federal remediation due Jul 21, 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 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers.
windows_10_1507windows_10_1607windows_10_1703windows_10_1709windows_10_1803windows_10_1809windows_7windows_8.1windows_rt_8.1windows_server_1709windows_server_1803windows_server_2008windows_server_2008 = r2windows_server_2012windows_server_2012 = r2windows_server_2016windows_server_2019Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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