CVE record
CVE-2018-8406
Microsoft DirectX Graphics Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL) driver improperly handles objects in memory.
CVE evidence
Known exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
Severity
unknown
No parseable CVSS vector returned
Affected packages
0
Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Catalog record
- Vendor / project
- Microsoft
- Product
- DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL)
- Date added
- Mar 28, 2022
- CISA federal remediation due date
- Apr 18, 2022
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-404
OSV package mapping
Affected open-source packages
OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.