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CVE-2023-36033

70
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-36033 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in the Windows DWM Core Library, affecting various versions of Windows 10, 11, and Server. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it allows a local attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage. Despite active exploitation, public exploit code such as Metasploit modules or ExploitDB entries are not currently available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.0.17763.5122CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
< 10.0.17763.5122CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
< 10.0.17763.5122CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
< 10.0.19041.3693CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
< 10.0.19041.3693CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
11.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Nov 14, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1198 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (23)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.5122
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.5122
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.5122
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2019Fixed in: 10.0.17763.5122
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.17763.5122
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2022Fixed in: 10.0.20348.2113
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.20348.2113
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2022Fixed in: 10.0.20348.2091
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.20348.2091
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22000.2600
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22000.2600
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19043.3693
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19043.3693
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19043.3693
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22621.2715
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22621.2715
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.3693
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.3693
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.3693
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22631.2715
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22631.2715
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.25398.531
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Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Nov/CVE-2023-36033Important

Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Nov 14, 2023

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36033
PatchVendor Advisory