CVE-2023-21559
Published: 10 January 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-21559 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1809. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 9.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Windows Cryptographic Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2023-21559 affects the Windows cryptographic component. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 with the vector AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N and is also associated with CWE-20.
An attacker with local access and low privileges can exploit the flaw without user interaction to disclose sensitive cryptographic information, resulting in a high confidentiality impact while leaving integrity and availability unaffected.
Microsoft security advisories at the referenced MSRC pages describe the issue and provide corresponding updates to address it. The associated EPSS values have remained essentially flat between a peak of 0.0592 and a current score of 0.0582.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-25726
Vulnerability details
Windows Cryptographic Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.
Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.
Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.
Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.