CVE-2023-36003
Published: 12 December 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-36003 is a medium-severity Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 2.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2023-36003 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in XAML Diagnostics, assigned a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.7 under the vector AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H and linked to CWE-426. The flaw was published on 12 December 2023 and affects the XAML Diagnostics component.
A local attacker who already possesses low privileges can exploit the issue when user interaction occurs, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected system.
Microsoft publishes mitigation and patch information for this vulnerability in its Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36003.
The associated EPSS score currently stands at 0.3857, matching its recorded peak.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-39987
Vulnerability details
XAML Diagnostics 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.