CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-8165

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-05-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-05-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-404

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL) driver improperly handles objects in memory, aka "DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 10 • microsoft windows 10 1607 • microsoft windows 10 1703 • microsoft windows 10 1709 • microsoft windows 10 1803 • microsoft windows server 2016 • microsoft windows server 2016 1709 • microsoft windows server 2016 1803

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness

References