Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-21732

High

Published: 10 January 2023

Published
10 January 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0672 91.5th percentile
Risk Priority 22 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-21732 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1809. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 8.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The vulnerability CVE-2023-21732 is a remote code execution flaw affecting the Microsoft ODBC Driver. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 and is associated with CWE-121.

An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the issue over a network with low attack complexity and user interaction required, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Microsoft security advisories at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21732 describe available updates and mitigation steps for affected ODBC Driver installations.

The EPSS score has remained flat at a peak and current value of 0.0672.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Microsoft ODBC Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1607
all versions
microsoft
windows 10 1809
all versions
microsoft
windows 10 20h2
all versions
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
all versions
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
all versions
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
all versions
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
all versions
microsoft
windows 7
all versions
microsoft
windows 8.1
all versions
microsoft
windows rt 8.1
all versions
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References