Privilege escalation via GDI use-after-free
Published Jun 13, 2023 · Updated Jan 1, 2025
Use-after-free in Windows GDI allows local users with low privileges to execute code with elevated privileges on affected Windows systems. Microsoft identifies freed-memory reuse in GDI but has not disclosed the affected object, function, or lifetime error. Exploitation requires an existing low-privilege account and can yield higher-privilege control on the same system.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Windows GDI allows local users with low privileges to execute code with elevated privileges on affected Windows systems. Microsoft identifies freed-memory reuse in GDI but has not disclosed the affected object, function, or lifetime error. Exploitation requires an existing low-privilege account and can yield higher-privilege control on the same system.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-29358
- Published
- Jun 13, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 1, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows 10 Version 1507
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 13, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 1, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.0.10240.0 <10.0.10240.19983
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