Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-38140

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 12 September 2023

Published
12 September 2023
Modified
08 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.7th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-38140 is a medium-severity Use of Uninitialized Resource (CWE-908) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1607. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CWE(s)
CWE-908NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

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 server 2016
≤ 10.0.14393.6252
microsoft
windows server 2019
≤ 10.0.17763.4851
microsoft
windows server 2022
≤ 10.0.20348.1970

Mitigating Controls

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

References