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CVE-2023-36876

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-36876 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in the Reliability Analysis Metrics Calculation (RacTask) component affecting Microsoft Windows Server 2008. With a CVSS score of 7.1 (HIGH), it allows a local attacker with low privileges to achieve high integrity and availability impact without user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion and media coverage despite being mentioned in Microsoft's August 2023 Patch Tuesday.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
r2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:sp1:*:*:*:*:x64:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0054 is in the 82nd 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 (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1Fixed in: 6.1.7601.26664
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.1.7601.26664
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Aug/CVE-2023-36876Important

Reliability Analysis Metrics Calculation (RacTask) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Aug 8, 2023

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36876
PatchVendor Advisory