CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-36033

Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 14, 2023 | Modified: Jan 23, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Weakness

The product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10_1809 Microsoft * 10.0.17763.5122 (excluding)
Windows_10_21h2 Microsoft * 10.0.19041.3693 (excluding)
Windows_10_22h2 Microsoft * 10.0.19045.3693 (excluding)
Windows_11_21h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22000.2600 (excluding)
Windows_11_22h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22621.2715 (excluding)
Windows_11_23h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22621.2715 (excluding)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft * 10.0.17763.5122 (excluding)
Windows_server_2022 Microsoft * 10.0.20348.2113 (excluding)
Windows_server_2022_23h2 Microsoft * 10.0.25398.531 (excluding)

Extended Description

An attacker can supply a pointer for memory locations that the product is not expecting. If the pointer is dereferenced for a write operation, the attack might allow modification of critical state variables, cause a crash, or execute code. If the dereferencing operation is for a read, then the attack might allow reading of sensitive data, cause a crash, or set a variable to an unexpected value (since the value will be read from an unexpected memory location). There are several variants of this weakness, including but not necessarily limited to:

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