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CVE-2018-8453
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CVE-2018-8453
MITRE ATT&CK
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Command and Control
Credential Access
Defense Evasion
Discovery
Execution
Exfiltration
Impact
Initial Access
Lateral Movement
Persistence
Privilege Escalation
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Description
“An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory” – MITRE description.
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ExploitabilityHigh
Technical Analysis
The handling of objects in memory allowed for a double-free of a memory region, which could be used to escalate privileges on a local system. See MSRC link for vulnerable versions and patch information.
The https://github.com/ze0r/cve-2018-8453-exp PoC for x86 systems successfully worked for me on Win10 x86 systems. The x64 version did not work for me though.
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Attacker ValueHigh
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Reported as exploited in the wild as part of Google’s 2020 0day vulnerability spreadsheet they made available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lkNJ0uQwbeC1ZTRrxdtuPLCIl7mlUreoKfSIgajnSyY/edit#gid=1869060786. Original tweet announcing this spreadsheet with the 2020 findings can be found at https://twitter.com/maddiestone/status/1329837665378725888
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