Microsoft Win32K Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Microsoft Win32k contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation up to SYSTEM privileges.

cat cve-2023-29336.json

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Win32k
CVSS: 7.8
EPSS (exploit probability): 40.9%
Status: kev
CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01): May 30, 2023
Published: May 9, 2023
Source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29336

Microsoft Win32k contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation up to SYSTEM privileges.

Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-05-09. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2023-05-30.

This is an auto-synced KEV catalog record pending a full 0dayNews write-up — see CISA’s KEV catalog and the NVD record linked above for primary sources.