Microsoft security update for CVE-2018-8400 — Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products6
- Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
- Windows Server, version 1709 (Server Core Installation)
- Windows Server, version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 KB articles
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2018-8400
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL) driver improperly handles objects in memory, aka "DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10 Servers, Windows 10. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8401, CVE-2018-8405, CVE-2018-8406.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2018-8400, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).