CVE-2023-36427HighCVSS 7.0

Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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

CVE-2023-36427 →

📋 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, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Real-world exploitability of this attack is very low. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to obtain 12th+ generation hardware to trigger the vulnerability. In addition, the attacker can only populate data at the beginning of a page, and its contents are mostly uncontrollable.

🎯 Affected products11

  • 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 x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • 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

🔗 References (15)