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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2018-8404: Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Aug 14, 2018

Added

Aug 14, 2018

Modified

Sep 5, 2025

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8399.

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_10-1507-kb4343892microsoft-windows-windows_10-1607-kb4343887microsoft-windows-windows_10-1703-kb4343885microsoft-windows-windows_10-1709-kb4343897microsoft-windows-windows_10-1803-kb4343909microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012-kb4343896microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012_r2-kb4343888microsoft-windows-windows_server_2016-1607-kb4343887msft-kb4343888-9ab5e18d-f797-40d7-9060-45a9866d6d6emsft-kb4343888-a66d6492-e84f-418a-84dd-8a5ad6ae0ba5msft-kb4343896-7b6f3c42-7894-4050-9b99-1d76fb5d2973msft-kb4343896-8f8f8d93-1980-4a05-a57e-6ae18b6755efmsft-kb4343899-1390e6b0-5a83-40ef-908f-93a18d143f85msft-kb4343899-244359a9-56fe-4fea-9470-5c43186bcfc1msft-kb4343899-66ac990f-0c27-443a-ac9b-83b116b6b822msft-kb4343899-a22a0f37-0609-442f-9060-d789539f370amsft-kb4343899-d30cbe47-67a9-4461-ab12-a669953debf1msft-kb4343899-f8dc5b2f-402d-46e3-ad8a-8d5c461a60d6

References

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