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CVE record · CVE-2018-8401

Microsoft Windows Server 2016: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL)…

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.021 · 81st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 15 Aug 2018, 17:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • affected (Server Core installation)
Microsoft Windows 10
  • affected 32-bit Systems
  • affected Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
  • affected Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • affected Version 1703 for 32-bit Systems
  • affected Version 1703 for x64-based Systems
  • affected Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
  • affected Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
  • affected Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems
  • affected Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
  • affected x64-based Systems
Microsoft Windows 10 Servers
  • affected version 1709 (Server Core Installation)
  • affected version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
Identifiers
CVE-2018-8401
CNA
microsoft
Tags
Published
15 Aug 2018
Updated
5 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.021, the 81st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 15 Aug 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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