What is CVE-2023-36408?

CVE-2023-36408 is a security advisory published by Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) with High severity. Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does CVE-2023-36408 cover?

CVE-2023-36408 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2023-36408. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of CVE-2023-36408?

CVE-2023-36408 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC).

Which products are affected by CVE-2023-36408?

CVE-2023-36408 affects 17 products, including: Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems; Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems; Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems; Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems; Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems; and others — see the full list on the advisory page.

CVE-2023-36408HighCVSS 7.8

Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vendor

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Published

November 14, 2023

Last Modified

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📋 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.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? This vulnerability would require an unauthenticated attacker on a guest VM to send specially crafted file operation requests to the VM's hardware resources which could result in remote code execution on the host server.

🎯 Affected products17

Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-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 23H2 for ARM64-based Systems
Windows 11 Version 23H2 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)
Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5032196 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.17763.5122 KB5032198 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.2113 KB5032304 (SecurityHotpatchUpdate) — fixed build 10.0.20348.2091 KB5032192 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22000.2600 KB5032189 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19043.3693 KB5032190 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22621.2715 KB5032189 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19045.3693 KB5032190 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22631.2715 KB5032202 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.25398.531 KB5032197 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.14393.6452

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📋 Description

🎯 Affected products17

✅ Remediation

🔗 References (17)