CVE-2018-8399 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Win32k component of Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 10 Servers, allowing an attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper object handling in memory. With a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), this vulnerability requires local access and high attack complexity, but can lead to significant impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable, and it has received limited community discussion and media coverage, indicating low current attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1703CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1703:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1709CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1803CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1803:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1709CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1803CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server:1803:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.