CVE detail

CVE-2018-8589 — Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published 2022-05-23 · Modified 2022-05-23 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0302

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

86.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2022-06-13

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to Win32k.sys. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run remote code in the security context of the local system.

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

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