CVE-2023-32053

22

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-32053 is a Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft products. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it allows a local attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact with low attack complexity and no user interaction. While there is no known active exploitation (KEV) or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of the flaw.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 10.0.10240.20048CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507::::::::
		< 10.0.14393.6085CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607::::::::
		< 10.0.17763.4645CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809::::::::
		< 10.0.19041.3208CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2::::::::
		< 10.0.19045.3208CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2::::::::

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

0.48%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

38.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 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 (32)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.4645

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.4645

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.4645

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2019Fixed in: 10.0.17763.4645

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.17763.4645

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2022Fixed in: 10.0.20348.1850

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.20348.1850

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22000.2176

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22000.2176

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19044.3208

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19044.3208

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19044.3208

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22621.1992

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22621.1992

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.3208

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.3208

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.3208

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.10240.20048

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.10240.20048

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.14393.6085

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.14393.6085

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2016Fixed in: 10.0.14393.6085

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.14393.6085

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1Fixed in: 6.1.7601.26623

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.1.7601.26623

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012Fixed in: 6.2.9200.24374

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.2.9200.24374

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012 R2Fixed in: 6.3.9600.21063

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.3.9600.21063

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012 R2Fixed in: 6.3.9600.21075

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.3.9600.21075

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Jul/CVE-2023-32053Important

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-32053

PatchVendor Advisory