Security Resilience

CVE-2023-36805

Command Injection in Microsoft Windows 10 1507 ≤ 10.0.10240.20162

Published
12 September 2023
Modified
08 April 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 7.0
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.018 78th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-36805 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Windows MSHTML Platform Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-21805Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1607
CVE-2023-21756Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1507
CVE-2023-32085Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1507
CVE-2023-32039Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1507
CVE-2023-35306Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1507
CVE-2023-32054Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1507
CVE-2023-32040Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1507
CVE-2026-49179Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1607
CVE-2023-35302Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1507
CVE-2026-32183Same product: Microsoft Windows 10 1607

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20162
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.6252
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.4851
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.3448
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.3448
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
≤ 10.0.22000.2416
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.2275
microsoft
windows server 2012
r2
microsoft
windows server 2016
≤ 10.0.14393.6252
microsoft
windows server 2019
≤ 10.0.17763.4851
+1 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

blocks

A.8.25 mandates secure SDLC practices including secure coding guidelines, security requirements, checkpoints, testing (scans/penetration), and developer training that reduce command injection defects, but leaves a minority slice (e.g. incomplete implementation of those practices, outsourced development without full assurance, or post-SDLC changes) where the weakness can still arise and be exploitable.

blocks

Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against injection flaws including command injection.

blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (e.g. distrust external input, secure session control, data validation/sanitization, least privilege) and design reviews that can stop command injection from being introduced, but this is only a minority slice of CWE-77 because the weakness can still arise in code that bypasses those principles, in non-reviewed components, or in runtime injection vectors the architecture review does not reach.

prevents

Secure coding standards require proper escaping and parameterization of commands, directly eliminating CWE-77.

finds

Security testing in development catches command-injection vulnerabilities before release.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-77, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.

References