Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008
CVE-2010-2549
Use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) by using a large number of calls to the NtUserCheckAccessForIntegrityLevel function to trigger a failure in the LockProcessByClientId function, leading to deletion of an in-use process object, aka "Win32k Reference Count Vulnerability."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.051 (92.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.051 · newest: 0.051 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12215 (signature, vdb-entry)
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jul/3 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14156 (Exploit, exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/41280 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/40421 (third-party-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- osvdb.org/66003 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/60120 (vdb-entry)