CVE-2023-28293

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track

*SSVC

Descriptions

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The Windows kernel suffers from out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities when operating on invalid registry paths in CmpDoReDoCreateKey / CmpDoReOpenTransKey.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Microsoftv3.1 7.8

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Partial

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-03-13 CVE Reserved
2023-04-11 CVE Published
2023-06-26 First Exploit
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2024-11-01 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-191: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173135/Microsoft-Windows-11-22h2-Kernel-Privilege-Escalation.html

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51544	2023-06-26

URL	Date	SRC
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-28293	2024-05-29

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows 10 1607 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 1607"				< 10.0.14393.5850 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 1607" and version " < 10.0.14393.5850"		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows 10 1809 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 1809"				< 10.0.17763.4252 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 1809" and version " < 10.0.17763.4252"		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows 10 20h2 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 20h2"				< 10.0.19042.2846 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 20h2" and version " < 10.0.19042.2846"		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows 10 21h2 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 21h2"				< 10.0.19044.2846 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 21h2" and version " < 10.0.19044.2846"		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows 10 22h2 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 22h2"				< 10.0.19045.2846 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 10 22h2" and version " < 10.0.19045.2846"		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows 11 21h2 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 11 21h2"				< 10.0.22621.1555 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 11 21h2" and version " < 10.0.22621.1555"		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows 11 22h2 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 11 22h2"				< 10.0.22621.1555 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows 11 22h2" and version " < 10.0.22621.1555"		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows Server 2008 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2008"				-		sp2		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows Server 2008 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2008"				r2 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2008" and version "r2"		sp1, x64		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows Server 2012 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2012"				-		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows Server 2012 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2012"				r2 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2012" and version "r2"		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows Server 2016 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2016"				-		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows Server 2019 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2019"				-		-		Affected
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Windows Server 2022 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Server 2022"				-		-		Affected