CVE-2018-8406 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL) driver, affecting various versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. It has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a local attacker can achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. This vulnerability is actively exploited, including in known ransomware campaigns, and has garnered significant community and media attention. Despite its active exploitation, no public exploit code is currently available through Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:-:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:-:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1703:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.