CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-8589

Published: Nov 14, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to Win32k.sys, aka Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This affects Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_7 Microsoft –sp1 (including) –sp1 (including)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft –sp2 (including) –sp2 (including)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2-sp1 (including) r2-sp1 (including)

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