CVE-2023-23388HighCVSS 8.8

Windows Bluetooth Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
March 14, 2023
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-23388 →

📋 Description

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability? In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An authorized attacker could exploit the Windows Bluetooth driver vulnerability by programmatically running certain functions that could lead to elevation of privilege on the Bluetooth component.

🎯 Affected products23

  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 20H2 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 20H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5023702 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.17763.4131 KB5023705 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.1607 KB5023786 (Security Hotpatch Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.1602 KB5023696 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19042.2728 KB5023698 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22000.1696 KB5023696 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19044.2728 KB5023706 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22621.1413 KB5023696 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19045.2728 KB5023697 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.14393.5786

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