CVE detail
CVE-2016-3309 — Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Published 2022-03-15 · Modified 2022-03-15 · Source kev
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.2062
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
97.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
LISTED
CISA KEV
due 2022-04-05
⚠ Actively exploited in the wild — CISA KEV listed 2022-03-15, federal remediation due 2022-04-05. RANSOMWARE
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References