CVE-2023-24864
Published: 14 March 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-24864 is a high-severity Wrap or Wraparound (CWE-191) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2012. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 9.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2023-24864 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting the Microsoft PostScript and PCL6 Class Printer Driver. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 and is associated with CWE-191.
An attacker with low privileges can exploit the flaw remotely over a network, without user interaction, to obtain high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, resulting in privilege escalation on the affected system.
Microsoft has published advisory information for this issue at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-24864, which addresses available updates and mitigation steps. The EPSS score has remained flat at a peak and current value of 0.0576.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-28854
Vulnerability details
Microsoft PostScript and PCL6 Class Printer Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.