CVE-2018-8589
CISA KEV
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Priority: 0.00
BB Relevance:
0/100
Published: N/A
Modified: N/A
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: pending_score
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to Win32k.sys. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run remote code in the security context of the local system.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Vendor / Product
Microsoft — Win32k
Date Added
2022-05-23
Remediation Due
2022-06-13
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8589